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- Best overall: Qwen3.8-Max-0902 (max) (72.62).
- Best open-weight: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (max) (71.81).
- Caveat: SuperCLUE's ranked board covers Chinese-developed models only; international models are excluded from ranking. Models within 1 point are treated as tied.
- Translation: not separately ranked yet; see gaps.
| # | Model | Maker | Score ↑ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen3.8-Max-0902 (max) | Alibaba | 72.62 |
| 2 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (max) open | DeepSeek | 71.81 |
| 3 | GLM-5.3 (max) open | Zhipu AI | 71.29 |
| 4 | DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 (max) open | DeepSeek | 70.1 |
| 5 | GLM-5.3-Flash (max) open | Zhipu AI | 68.1 |
| 6 | Qwen3.8-Flash (max) open | Alibaba | 66.41 |
| 7 | Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro (high) | ByteDance | 65.94 |
| 8 | DeepSeek-V4-Flash (max) open | DeepSeek | 65.6 |
| 9 | DeepSeek-V4-Pro (max) open | DeepSeek | 64.4 |
| 10 | GLM-5.2 (max) open | Zhipu AI | 63.27 |
Source: SuperCLUE General Leaderboard, Jul 2026 edition, data as of 2026-09-11 (latest eval date in edition), retrieved 2026-10-15. Metric: Overall score 0-100, higher is better (hallucination control, math, science reasoning, instruction following, agentic coding, agentic task planning).
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