Benchmark Almanac

FinStepBench

Step 5 Preview 63.6% In use

Models do three kinds of finance work: retrieving and checking live financial facts, building company valuations, and writing full research reports. Graders check accuracy, sourcing and reproducible calculations.

StepFun built the three suites in house. The post does not name the grader, so the scoring type is a guess.

Made by StepFun Released Sep 2026 Finance Tasks kept private Last in a launch post Sep 2026 Last model added Sep 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
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.
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Model scored in lab cards
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Launch post lists it, from 1 lab

Step 5 Preview leads with 63.6%

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.

  1. 1 Step 5 Preview 63.6%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Step 5 Preview 63.6% Sep 2026 Model card

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
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Step 5 Preview 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Step 5 Preview

One lab put it in a launch post in the last six months

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.

StepFun
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
20 Sep 2026 Step 5 Preview 63.6 Mean of FinStepBench-LiveSearch 74.5 / FinStepBench-CorporateValuation 60.6 / FinStepBench-FinanceDR 55.8

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