Benchmark Almanac

AlignBench

Qwen3-235B-A22B 8.94 leads since Apr 2025 Dropped

Models answer 683 real Chinese user queries across eight categories. A GPT-4 judge rates each answer from 1 to 10 against a reference.

Version 1.1 from June 2024 corrected reference answers, so v1.0 and v1.1 scores differ.

In the authors’ words

Alignment has become a critical step for instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) to become helpful assistants. However, the effective evaluation of alignment for emerging Chinese LLMs is still largely unexplored. To fill in this gap, we introduce AlignBench, a comprehensive multi-dimensional benchmark for evaluating LLMs' alignment in Chinese. We design a human-in-the-loop data curation pipeline, containing eight main categories, 683 real-scenario rooted queries and corresponding human verified references. To ensure the correctness of references, each knowledge-intensive query is accompanied with evidences collected from reliable web sources (including URLs and quotations) by our annotators. For automatic evaluation, our benchmark employs a rule-calibrated multi-dimensional LLM-as-Judge approach with Chain-of-Thought to generate explanations and final ratings, ensuring high reliability and interpretability. All evaluation code, data, and LLM generations are available at https://github.com/THUDM/AlignBench. Since its release, AlignBench has been adopted by top (Chinese) LLMs for evaluating their alignment capabilities in Chinese, including ChatGLM, Qwen, DeepSeek, Yi, Baichuan, and Abab.

Abstract of AlignBench: Benchmarking Chinese Alignment of Large Language Models (arXiv:2311.18743, CC0)
Made by Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI (THUDM) Released Nov 2023 Overall chat quality All tasks public Last in a launch post Apr 2025 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Sep 2025
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
15
Models scored in lab cards
6
Launch posts list it, from 3 labs
13
System cards report it, from 5 labs

Qwen3-235B-A22B leads with 8.94 among models released by Aug 2025

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

The newest model with a score here came out in Aug 2025, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Qwen3-235B-A22B 8.94
  2. 2 Baichuan-M2-32B 8.77
  3. 3 Qwen3-32B 8.72
  4. 4 Qwen3-30B-A3B 8.70
  5. 5 Qwen3-14B 8.56
  6. 6 Qwen3-8B 8.46
  7. 7 Qwen3-4B 8.30
  8. 8 Qwen2-72B 8.27
  9. 9 Qwen2.5-72B 8.16
  10. 10 DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 8.04
  11. 11 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 7.91
  12. 12 GLM-4 7.88
  13. 13 Qwen3-1.7B 7.60
  14. 14 MiMo-7B-RL 6.90
  15. 15 DeepSeek LLM 67B 6.43
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen3-235B-A22B 8.94 Apr 2025 Model card
2 Baichuan-M2-32B 8.77 Sep 2025 Model card
3 Qwen3-32B 8.72 May 2025 Model card
4 Qwen3-30B-A3B 8.70 May 2025 Model card
5 Qwen3-14B 8.56 May 2025 Model card
6 Qwen3-8B 8.46 May 2025 Model card
7 Qwen3-4B 8.30 May 2025 Model card
8 Qwen2-72B 8.27 Jun 2024 Model card
9 Qwen2.5-72B 8.16 Sep 2024 Model card
10 DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 8.04 Sep 2024 Model card
11 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 7.91 May 2024 Model card
12 GLM-4 7.88 Jan 2024 Model card
13 Qwen3-1.7B 7.60 May 2025 Model card
14 MiMo-7B-RL 6.90 May 2025 Model card
15 DeepSeek LLM 67B 6.43 Jan 2024 Model card

5 models have held number one since its release in Nov 2023

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

DeepSeek Z.ai Qwen
Lab claims Not tested since Sep 2025

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 2024 2025 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 2024 2025

No launch post has listed it since Apr 2025

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Z.ai
DeepSeek
Qwen
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
29 Apr 2025 Qwen3-235B-A22B 8.94 AlignBench v1.1
19 Sep 2024 Qwen2.5-72B 8.16 AlignBench v1.1
5 Sep 2024 DeepSeek-V2.5 8.04 AlignBench
7 Jun 2024 Qwen2-72B 8.27 AlignBench
7 May 2024 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 7.91 Alignbench (总分)
16 Jan 2024 GLM-4 7.88 AlignBench 2023 总分 (overall)

13 system cards report it, from 5 labs

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
2 Sep 2025 Baichuan-M2-32B technical report 8.77 AlignBench, 10-point scale (Table 1) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-8B technical report 8.46 AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 8.38 (Table 18) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-4B technical report 8.3 AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 8.10 (Table 18) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-32B technical report 8.72 AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 13). Non-thinking 8.58 (Table 14) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-30B-A3B technical report 8.7 AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 8.55 (Table 16) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-235B-A22B technical report 8.94 AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 11). Non-thinking 8.91 (Table 12) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-14B technical report 8.56 AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 8.52 (Table 16) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-1.7B technical report 7.6 AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 19). Non-thinking 7.20 (Table 20) Capabilities
12 May 2025 MiMo-7B-RL technical report 6.9 Alignbench v1.1, GPT-4.1 judge (Table 6) Capabilities
15 Jul 2024 Qwen2-72B technical report 8.27 AlignBench, Qwen2-72B-Instruct (Table 6) Capabilities
18 Jun 2024 GLM-4 technical report 7.66 GLM-4 (0116), AlignBench-v1.1 Overall, 10-point scale (Table 4) Capabilities
7 May 2024 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) technical report 7.91 AlignBench overall rated by GPT-4-0613, reasoning 7.45, language 8.36, DeepSeek-V2 Chat (RL) (Table 5) Capabilities
5 Jan 2024 DeepSeek LLM 67B technical report 6.43 AlignBench overall rated by gpt-4-0613, DeepSeek-67B-Chat, reasoning 5.75, language 7.11. DPO checkpoint 6.69 (Table 7) Capabilities

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