Vals EMB (EMB)
Evaluating agents on Excel-based financial modeling tasks
Data verified 24 confirmed releases in the last 30 daysStart free briefHow BenchLM shows EMB
BenchLM mirrors the public Vals AI EMB leaderboard captured from https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/emb and updated by Vals on August 19, 2026. The snapshot preserves overall scores, uncertainty, latency, cost-per-test metadata, and task-level scores where Vals publishes them.
EMB is display only on BenchLM. Vals proprietary or Vals-hosted aggregate views are useful context, but BenchLM does not use them as weighted ranking inputs or as a replacement for benchmark-native source records.
Snapshot
EMB score on EMB — August 19, 2026
We mirror the published emb score view for EMB. Claude Fable 5 leads the public snapshot at 73.67%, followed by Claude Opus 5 (73.56%) and GPT-5.6 Sol (72.34%). We do not use these results to rank models overall.
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
max reasoning
EMB score table (48 models)
ScoreThe published EMB snapshot places Claude Fable 5 first at 73.67%. The third row is 1.33 points behind. The broader top-10 range is 8.25 points, so many of the published results sit in a relatively narrow band.
48 models have been evaluated on EMB. The benchmark falls in the External benchmark mirrors category. We keep external benchmark mirrors separate from the weighted global scoring system, so these results remain source-specific evidence. EMB is currently displayed for reference but excluded from the scoring formula, so it does not directly affect overall rankings.
About EMB
Year
2026
Tasks
Excel-based financial modeling tasks
Format
Accuracy score
Difficulty
Professional finance modeling
BenchLM mirrors the public Vals AI EMB leaderboard as display-only external evidence. The captured snapshot preserves overall scores, task-level scores where Vals publishes them, uncertainty, latency, and cost-per-test metadata. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted rankings.
BenchLM freshness & provenance
Version
EMB 2026
Refresh cadence
Quarterly
Staleness state
Current
Question availability
Public benchmark set
BenchLM uses freshness metadata to decide whether a benchmark should still be treated as a strong differentiator, a benchmark to watch, or a display-only reference. For the full scoring policy, see the BenchLM methodology page.
FAQ
What does EMB measure?
Evaluating agents on Excel-based financial modeling tasks
Which model leads the published EMB snapshot?
Claude Fable 5 currently leads the published EMB snapshot with 73.67% emb score. BenchLM shows this benchmark for display only and does not use it in overall rankings.
How many models are evaluated on EMB?
48 AI models are included in BenchLM's mirrored EMB snapshot, based on the public leaderboard captured on August 19, 2026.
Know when it’s worth switching models
The model to choose, the cheaper alternative, and the release we would wait on.
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