Benchmark Almanac

SuperCLUE

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 72.6 leads since Sep 2026 Not in model cards

The CLUE team tests Chinese and foreign language models on periodic sets of Chinese questions covering language, professional knowledge, reasoning, agents and safety. Open answers are graded by a strong LLM judge, and results feed an overall ranking.

Each period uses new questions, with reports such as 2023-12, 2024 H1, 2025 H1, 2025-09 and the 2025 annual report. Scores from different periods are not comparable. The repository has over 3,300 stars.

In the authors’ words

Large language models (LLMs) have shown the potential to be integrated into human daily lives. Therefore, user preference is the most critical criterion for assessing LLMs' performance in real-world scenarios. However, existing benchmarks mainly focus on measuring models' accuracy using multi-choice questions, which limits the understanding of their capabilities in real applications. We fill this gap by proposing a comprehensive Chinese benchmark SuperCLUE, named after another popular Chinese LLM benchmark CLUE. SuperCLUE encompasses three sub-tasks: actual users' queries and ratings derived from an LLM battle platform (CArena), open-ended questions with single and multiple-turn dialogues (OPEN), and closed-ended questions with the same stems as open-ended single-turn ones (CLOSE). Our study shows that accuracy on closed-ended questions is insufficient to reflect human preferences achieved on open-ended ones. At the same time, they can complement each other to predict actual user preferences. We also demonstrate that GPT-4 is a reliable judge to automatically evaluate human preferences on open-ended questions in a Chinese context. Our benchmark will be released at https://www.CLUEbenchmarks.com

Abstract of SuperCLUE: A Comprehensive Chinese Large Language Model Benchmark (arXiv:2307.15020, CC0)
Made by CLUE benchmark team (SuperCLUE) Released May 2023 Composite indices Tasks kept private Last model added Sep 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
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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Models scored on its own leaderboard

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) leads with 72.6 among models released by Sep 2026

Best score per model from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on 2 Nov 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best.

The newest model with a score here came out in Sep 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) max 72.6
  2. 2 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash max 71.8
  3. 3 Qwen 3.8 Max max 71.5
  4. 4 GLM-5.3 max 71.3
  5. 5 Kimi K3 max 70.7
  6. 6 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 max 70.1
  7. 7 GLM-5.3-Flash max 68.1
  8. 8 Qwen3.8 Flash max 66.4
  9. 9 Seed2.1 Pro 65.9
  10. 10 DeepSeek-V4-Flash max 65.6
  11. 11 DeepSeek-V4-Pro max 64.4
  12. 12 GLM-5.2 max 63.3
  13. 13 Tencent Hy3 high 62.1
  14. 14 MiniMax-M3 56.9
  15. 15 ERNIE 5.1 max 54.6
  16. 16 LongCat-2.0 54.2
  17. 17 MiMo-V2.5-Pro 53.0
  18. 18 Step 3.7 Flash high 48.2
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 72.6 max Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
2 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 71.8 max Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Qwen 3.8 Max 71.5 max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
4 GLM-5.3 71.3 max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Kimi K3 70.7 max Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
6 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 70.1 max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
7 GLM-5.3-Flash 68.1 max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
8 Qwen3.8 Flash 66.4 max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
9 Seed2.1 Pro 65.9 Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
10 DeepSeek-V4-Flash 65.6 max Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
11 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 64.4 max Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
12 GLM-5.2 63.3 max Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
13 Tencent Hy3 62.1 high Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
14 MiniMax-M3 56.9 Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
15 ERNIE 5.1 54.6 max May 2026 Official leaderboard
16 LongCat-2.0 54.2 Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
17 MiMo-V2.5-Pro 53.0 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
18 Step 3.7 Flash 48.2 high May 2026 Official leaderboard

6 models have held number one since its release in May 2023

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

Xiaomi Corp DeepSeek ByteDance Seed Moonshot AI Qwen
Own leaderboard Not tested since Sep 2026

Scores over time

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

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard
50.0 60.0 70.0 2026 50.0 60.0 70.0 2026

No lab model card reports it yet

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.

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