Who is SOTA in Legal?Crown open.
Legal research across US law on Vals AI's Legal Research Bench, built with law-firm partners and graded all-pass by an LLM judge on lawyer-written rubrics. Source: Vals AI. As of Nov 3, 2026, Legal is uncrowned on isitsota (methodology v1.0). Crown history, benchmark weights and methodology.
| # | Model | State | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZGLM 5.3 Zhipu AI | #1 in Legal | low |
| 2 | XIMimo V2.6 Pro Xiaomi | #2 in Legal | low |
| 3 | KKimi K3 Moonshot AI | #3 in Legal | low |
| 4 | DSDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 DeepSeek | #4 in Legal | low |
| 4 | ZGLM 5.3 Flash Zhipu AI | #4 in Legal | low |
| 4 | TEHy4 Preview Tencent | #4 in Legal | low |
| 5 | DSDeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek | #5 in Legal | low |
| 6 | MMuse Spark Open Meta | #6 in Legal | low |
| 7 | XIMimo V2.6 Flash Xiaomi | #7 in Legal | low |
| 8 | QQwen3.8 27B Alibaba / Qwen | #8 in Legal | low |
| 9 | MiMistral Large 4 Mistral | #9 in Legal | low |
| 10 | ZGLM 5.2 Zhipu AI | #10 in Legal | low |
| 11 | MIMinimax M3 MiniMax | #11 in Legal | low |
| 12 | THInkling thinky | #12 in Legal | low |
| 13 | ZGLM 5.1 Zhipu AI | #13 in Legal | low |
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What can move this crown
- Legal Research Bench — primary, weight 1 · Source: Vals AI · AI judge (LLM-graded rubric) · partner-built (Fisher Phillips, McDermott Will & Schulte, Reed Smith, Legal Technology Hub)
Source: Vals AI for the Vals benchmarks above: proprietary private test sets run by Vals and republished with permission. Only each benchmark's standard harness counts; product-harness runs (Claude Code, Codex and similar) are not matched to base models. Vals is the only source on this board, so after the first holder a crown change needs two consecutive Vals snapshots that agree. A snapshot is a new Vals release of the board, dated the day isitsota first saw it.
Who is SOTA in Legal?
As of Nov 3, 2026, Legal is uncrowned on isitsota (methodology v1.0).
Since when is the Legal crown current?
As of Nov 3, 2026, Legal has an open crown.