Leaderboard, made by Tsinghua University; Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
StockBench
Whether LLM agents can trade a basket of large US stocks profitably over several months. Each day the agent gets prices, fundamentals and news and chooses buy, sell or hold.
What this does not measure: not investment performance. Returns come from a test setting over a fixed period, not from managing real money.
StockBench arXiv v2 (2026-03-02)
final return %, higher is better. 11 models.
Updated 2 Mar 2026
- Qwen3-235B-Think2.5
- Qwen3-235B-Ins2.4
- GLM-4.52.3
- Claude-4-Sonnet2.2
- Qwen3-30B-Think2.1
- Kimi K21.9
- OpenAI-O31.9
- DeepSeek-V3.11.1
- GPT-50.300
- DeepSeek-V30.200
- Qwen3-Coder0.200
StockBench arXiv v2 (2026-03-02)
final return %, higher is better. Top 10 of 11 models.
Updated 2 Mar 2026
- 1Qwen3-235B-Think2.5
- 2Qwen3-235B-Ins2.4
- 3GLM-4.52.3
- 4Claude-4-Sonnet2.2
- 5Qwen3-30B-Think2.1
- 6Kimi K21.9
- 6OpenAI-O31.9
- 8DeepSeek-V3.11.1
- 9GPT-50.300
- 10DeepSeek-V30.200
| 1 | Qwen3-235B-Think | Qwen | 2.5 | composite rank 4 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
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| 2 | Qwen3-235B-Ins | Qwen | 2.4 | composite rank 2 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 3 | GLM-4.5 | Zhipu AI | 2.3 | composite rank 3 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 4 | Claude-4-Sonnet | Anthropic | 2.2 | composite rank 7 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 5 | Qwen3-30B-Think | Qwen | 2.1 | composite rank 6 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 6 | Kimi K2 | Moonshot AI | 1.9 | composite rank 1 (z-score of return, drawdown, Sortino); avg of 3 runs | Paper Table 2 (same as project leaderboard) Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 6 | OpenAI-O3 | OpenAI | 1.9 | composite rank 5 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 8 | DeepSeek-V3.1 | DeepSeek | 1.1 | composite rank 8 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 9 | GPT-5 | OpenAI | 0.300 | composite rank 9 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 10 | DeepSeek-V3 | DeepSeek | 0.200 | composite rank 11 (passive baseline is rank 12 at +0.4%) | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |
| 10 | Qwen3-Coder | Qwen | 0.200 | composite rank 10 | Paper Table 2 Reported by the authors, reported 2 Mar 2026 · checked 1 Nov 2026 |