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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
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14B41K$0.12 / $0.24
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
73B33K$0.36 / $0.40
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About this benchmark

What is AlignBench?

AlignBench is a comprehensive multi-dimensional benchmark for evaluating Chinese alignment of Large Language Models. It contains 8 main categories: Fundamental Language Ability, Advanced Chinese Understanding, Open-ended Questions, Writing Ability, Logical Reasoning, Mathematics, Task-oriented Role Play, and Professional Knowledge. The benchmark includes 683 real-scenario rooted queries with human-verified references and uses a rule-calibrated multi-dimensional LLM-as-Judge approach with Chain-of-Thought for evaluation.

AlignBench is a text benchmark evaluating models on language, math, reasoning, roleplay, general, creativity, and writing tasks. LLM Stats tracks 5 models on this benchmark, scored on a 0–1 scale. The current average is 0.8, with the leader at 0.9.

Compare leaders on the best AI for language, best AI for math, best AI for reasoning, best AI for roleplay, best AI for general, best AI for creativity and best AI for writing leaderboards.

Current leaders

Qwen3 14B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the AlignBench leaderboard with a score of 0.856 across 5 evaluated AI models.

1Qwen3 14BAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team85.6%
2Qwen2.5 72B InstructAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team81.6%
3DeepSeek-V2.5DeepSeek80.4%

Source paper

Title
AlignBench: Benchmarking Chinese Alignment of Large Language Models
Authors
Xiao Liu, Xuanyu Lei, Shengyuan Wang, Yue Huang, and 14 others
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Abstract

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~\cite{zheng2023judging} 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 \url{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.

FAQ

Common questions about the AlignBench benchmark and leaderboard.

What is the AlignBench benchmark?

AlignBench is a comprehensive multi-dimensional benchmark for evaluating Chinese alignment of Large Language Models. It contains 8 main categories: Fundamental Language Ability, Advanced Chinese Understanding, Open-ended Questions, Writing Ability, Logical Reasoning, Mathematics, Task-oriented Role Play, and Professional Knowledge. The benchmark includes 683 real-scenario rooted queries with human-verified references and uses a rule-calibrated multi-dimensional LLM-as-Judge approach with Chain-of-Thought for evaluation.

What is the AlignBench leaderboard?

The AlignBench leaderboard ranks 5 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen3 14B by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.856. The average score across all models is 0.786.

What is the highest AlignBench score?

The highest AlignBench score is 0.856, achieved by Qwen3 14B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on AlignBench?

5 models have been evaluated on the AlignBench benchmark, with 0 verified results and 5 self-reported results.

Where can I find the AlignBench paper?

The AlignBench paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18743. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does AlignBench cover?

AlignBench is categorized under language, math, reasoning, roleplay, general, creativity, and writing. The benchmark evaluates text models with multilingual support.

What is the best open-source model on AlignBench?

Qwen3 14B by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the top-ranked open-source model on AlignBench, with a score of 0.856 (rank #1).

Which model offers the best value on AlignBench?

Among models scoring within 10% of the leader, Qwen3 14B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the cheapest, at $0.12 per million input tokens with a score of 0.856.

How recent are the AlignBench leaderboard results?

The AlignBench leaderboard was last updated in October 2026 and currently includes 5 evaluated models.