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.
- Made by
- Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI (THUDM)
- Released
- November 2023
- Kind
- Overall chat quality
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Graded by a model
- Answers
- Open-ended
- Tasks
- All public
- Strongest model tested
-
Qwen3-235B-A22B #130 on the capability index
- Last in a launch post
- April 2025, dropped before it saturated
- Last model added
- September 2025
- Scores refreshed
- November 12th, 2026
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.
Qwen3-235B-A22B leads with 8.94 among models released by August 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.
GPT-4 Turbo leads with 8.00 across all independent runs
Best score per model across the official leaderboard, Epoch AI’s own runs and any board Epoch AI copied. Each bar and row names its source.
Qwen3-235B-A22B leads with 8.94, claims included
Best score per model from every source, including labs’ own numbers and claims Epoch AI collected from reports and papers. Labs pick their own settings, so a claim can beat an independent run of the same model.
The newest model with a score here came out in August 2025, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- Claude Fable 5.2
-
Gemini 4 Carbon
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- 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
Source: Labs’ model cards
- 1 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024, v1.1 8.00
- 2
Yi-Large v1.1 7.80
- 3 Claude 3 Opus v1.1 7.53
- 4
Llama 3-70B v1.1 7.42
- 5
WizardLM-2 8x22B v1.1 7.34
- 6 Claude 3 Sonnet v1.1 6.71
- 7 Claude 3 Haiku v1.1 6.38
Source: Official AlignBench leaderboard
- 8.94
Qwen3-235B-A22B
- 8.77
Baichuan-M2-32B
- 8.72
Qwen3-32B
- 8.70
Qwen3-30B-A3B
- 8.56
Qwen3-14B
- 8.46
Qwen3-8B
- 8.30
Qwen3-4B
- 8.27
Qwen2-72B
- 8.16
Qwen2.5-72B
- 8.04
DeepSeek-V2.5
- 8.00 GPT-4 Turbo
- 7.91
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)
- 7.88 GLM-4
- 7.80
Yi-Large
- 7.60
Qwen3-1.7B
- 7.53 Claude 3 Opus
- 7.42
Llama 3-70B
- 7.34
WizardLM-2 8x22B
- 6.90 MiMo-7B-RL
- 6.71 Claude 3 Sonnet
- 6.43
DeepSeek LLM 67B
- 6.38 Claude 3 Haiku
- 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 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024, v1.1 8.00
- 12
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 7.91
- 13 GLM-4 7.88
- 14
Yi-Large v1.1 7.80
- 15
Qwen3-1.7B 7.60
- 16 Claude 3 Opus v1.1 7.53
- 17
Llama 3-70B v1.1 7.42
- 18
WizardLM-2 8x22B v1.1 7.34
- 19 MiMo-7B-RL 6.90
- 20 Claude 3 Sonnet v1.1 6.71
- 21
DeepSeek LLM 67B 6.43
- 22 Claude 3 Haiku v1.1 6.38
Sources: Labs’ model cards and official AlignBench leaderboard
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 8.94 | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | | 8.77 | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 3 | | 8.72 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 4 | | 8.70 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 5 | | 8.56 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 6 | | 8.46 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 7 | | 8.30 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 8 | | 8.27 | Jun 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 9 | | 8.16 | Sep 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 10 | | 8.04 | Sep 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 11 | | 7.91 | May 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 12 | GLM-4 | 7.88 | Jan 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 13 | | 7.60 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 14 | MiMo-7B-RL | 6.90 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 15 | | 6.43 | Jan 2024 | Lab model card |
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 | 8.00 | v1.1 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | | 7.80 | v1.1 | May 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 3 | Claude 3 Opus | 7.53 | v1.1 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | | 7.42 | v1.1 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 5 | | 7.34 | v1.1 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 6 | Claude 3 Sonnet | 6.71 | v1.1 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 7 | Claude 3 Haiku | 6.38 | v1.1 | Mar 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 8.94 | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | | 8.77 | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 3 | | 8.72 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 4 | | 8.70 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 5 | | 8.56 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 6 | | 8.46 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 7 | | 8.30 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 8 | | 8.27 | Jun 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 9 | | 8.16 | Sep 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 10 | | 8.04 | Sep 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 11 | GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 | 8.00 | v1.1 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 12 | | 7.91 | May 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 13 | GLM-4 | 7.88 | Jan 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 14 | | 7.80 | v1.1 | May 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 15 | | 7.60 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 16 | Claude 3 Opus | 7.53 | v1.1 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 17 | | 7.42 | v1.1 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 18 | | 7.34 | v1.1 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 19 | MiMo-7B-RL | 6.90 | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 20 | Claude 3 Sonnet | 6.71 | v1.1 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 21 | | 6.43 | Jan 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 22 | Claude 3 Haiku | 6.38 | v1.1 | Mar 2024 | Official leaderboard |
The benchmark's own leaderboard has 23 entries, 7 of them models we track. Switch the scores above to rank them together.
5 models have held number one in labs’ own numbers since its release in November 2023 2 models have held number one across all independent runs since its release in November 2023 5 models have held number one with claims included since its release in November 2023
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release. We draw one row each for the benchmark’s own leaderboard and what labs claim in their cards.
Sources: Official AlignBench leaderboard and labs’ model cards
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Sources: Official AlignBench leaderboard and labs’ model cards
No launch post has listed it since April 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2025 | 8.94 | AlignBench v1.1 | |
| Sep 19, 2024 | 8.16 | AlignBench v1.1 | |
| Sep 5, 2024 | 8.04 | AlignBench | |
| Jun 7, 2024 | 8.27 | AlignBench | |
| May 7, 2024 | 7.91 | Alignbench (总分) | |
| Jan 16, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2025 | | 8.77 | AlignBench, 10-point scale (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 8.46 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 8.38 (Table 18) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 8.3 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 8.10 (Table 18) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 8.72 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 13). Non-thinking 8.58 (Table 14) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 8.7 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 8.55 (Table 16) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 8.94 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 11). Non-thinking 8.91 (Table 12) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 8.56 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 8.52 (Table 16) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 7.6 | AlignBench v1.1, thinking mode (Table 19). Non-thinking 7.20 (Table 20) | Capabilities |
| May 12, 2025 | MiMo-7B-RL technical report | 6.9 | Alignbench v1.1, GPT-4.1 judge (Table 6) | Capabilities |
| Jul 15, 2024 | | 8.27 | AlignBench, Qwen2-72B-Instruct (Table 6) | Capabilities |
| Jun 18, 2024 | GLM-4 technical report | 7.66 | GLM-4 (0116), AlignBench-v1.1 Overall, 10-point scale (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| May 7, 2024 | | 7.91 | AlignBench overall rated by GPT-4-0613, reasoning 7.45, language 8.36, DeepSeek-V2 Chat (RL) (Table 5) | Capabilities |
| Jan 5, 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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