Vals Index v2 (Vals Index)
Vals AI composite benchmark across professional finance, coding, modeling, and legal-work tasks, including Finance Agent v2, EMB, Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vibe Code Bench, Code Migration, Legal Research, and HLAB.
Data verified 24 confirmed releases in the last 30 daysStart free briefHow BenchLM shows Vals Index
BenchLM mirrors the public Vals AI Vals Index leaderboard captured from https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/vals_index 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.
Vals Index 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
Vals Index score on Vals Index — August 19, 2026
We mirror the published vals index score view for Vals Index. Claude Opus 5 leads the public snapshot at 67.21%, followed by Claude Fable 5 (66.04%) and GPT-5.6 Sol (63.71%). We do not use these results to rank models overall.
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
max reasoning
Vals Index score table (48 models)
ScoreThe published Vals Index snapshot places Claude Opus 5 first at 67.21%. The third row is 3.50 points behind. The broader top-10 range is 9.40 points, so many of the published results sit in a relatively narrow band.
48 models have been evaluated on Vals Index. 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. Vals Index is currently displayed for reference but excluded from the scoring formula, so it does not directly affect overall rankings.
About Vals Index
Year
2026
Tasks
Finance, coding, spreadsheet modeling, code migration, and legal-work components
Format
Composite score
Difficulty
Private economic-work benchmark composite
We mirror Vals Index v2 as a display-only external composite. The task mix changed from the earlier index, so the current score should not be treated as directly interchangeable with an older snapshot. Vals proprietary aggregate scores remain outside weighted rankings.
BenchLM freshness & provenance
Version
Vals Index 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 Vals Index measure?
Vals AI composite benchmark across professional finance, coding, modeling, and legal-work tasks, including Finance Agent v2, EMB, Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vibe Code Bench, Code Migration, Legal Research, and HLAB.
Which model leads the published Vals Index snapshot?
Claude Opus 5 currently leads the published Vals Index snapshot with 67.21% vals index score. BenchLM shows this benchmark for display only and does not use it in overall rankings.
How many models are evaluated on Vals Index?
The August 19, 2026 contains 48 AI models.
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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