AlignBench
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.
- 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.
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:
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- and 16 more
- 1
Qwen3-235B-A22B 8.94
- 2
Baichuan-M2-32B 8.77
- 3
Qwen3-32B 8.72
- 4
Qwen3-30B-A3B 8.70
- 5
Qwen3-14B 8.56
- 6
Qwen3-8B 8.46
- 7
Qwen3-4B 8.30
- 8
Qwen2-72B 8.27
- 9
Qwen2.5-72B 8.16
- 10
DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 8.04
- 11
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 7.91
- 12 GLM-4 7.88
- 13
Qwen3-1.7B 7.60
- 14 MiMo-7B-RL 6.90
- 15
DeepSeek LLM 67B 6.43
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 8.94 | Apr 2025 | Model card | |
| 2 | | 8.77 | Sep 2025 | Model card | |
| 3 | | 8.72 | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 4 | | 8.70 | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 5 | | 8.56 | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 6 | | 8.46 | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 7 | | 8.30 | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 8 | | 8.27 | Jun 2024 | Model card | |
| 9 | | 8.16 | Sep 2024 | Model card | |
| 10 | | 8.04 | Sep 2024 | Model card | |
| 11 | | 7.91 | May 2024 | Model card | |
| 12 | GLM-4 | 7.88 | Jan 2024 | Model card | |
| 13 | | 7.60 | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 14 | MiMo-7B-RL | 6.90 | May 2025 | Model card | |
| 15 | | 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.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
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.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Apr 2025 | 8.94 | AlignBench v1.1 | |
| 19 Sep 2024 | 8.16 | AlignBench v1.1 | |
| 5 Sep 2024 | 8.04 | AlignBench | |
| 7 Jun 2024 | 8.27 | AlignBench | |
| 7 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.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Sep 2025 | | 8.77 | AlignBench, 10-point scale (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 8.46 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 8.38 (Table 18) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 8.3 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 8.10 (Table 18) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 8.72 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 13). Non-thinking 8.58 (Table 14) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 8.7 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 8.55 (Table 16) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 8.94 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 11). Non-thinking 8.91 (Table 12) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 8.56 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 8.52 (Table 16) | Capabilities |
| 14 May 2025 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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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