Best LLM for Creative Writing: AI Writing Leaderboard

The writing board covers five writing-related categories of the LMArena text leaderboard, one per tab: creative writing (creative_writing, default), writing/literature/language tasks, longer prompts (longer_query; not a long-context test), multi-turn (multi_turn) and instruction following (instruction_following). Scores come from blind human pairwise votes, not automated benchmarks.

🏆 #1 in Creative writingData Oct 22, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Anthropic · 1534.2

Bottom line (Oct 22, 2026 data): the best LLM for writing is Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1534.2). Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1534.2) leads Gemini 4 Argon (High) (1523.1) by 11 points, but Gemini's output price is 50% of Claude's. Best value: MiMo-V2.6-Pro (highest score per dollar, $0.544/1M tokens blended).

Claude vs Gemini: which is better for writing?

ModelScoreRankWriting & literatureInput / outputScore per $
Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Top Claude1534.2±13.611532.1 #1$4 / $20192
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Cheapest Claude in top 201468.3±14.1181475.7 #18$2 / $10367
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Top Gemini1523.1±13.421524.4 #2$2 / $10381
Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Cheapest Gemini in top 201489.1±8.491491.5 #12$0.75 / $3.75993

When the gap is smaller than the combined confidence intervals, the rank difference may not be significant. Prices are OpenRouter quotes (USD / 1M tokens).

Full ranking · Creative writing

416 models

Sorted by LMArena score; ± is the 95% CI half-width. Prices: OpenRouter quote (official list price if none), USD per 1M tokens.

# Model Score Rank Votes Writing & literature Input / output Blended Score per $
1 LLaMA 13BMeta 793.7±31.9 416 431 809 No price yet
2 ?Dolly 2.0 12B 863.5±26.9 415 565 872.2 No price yet
3 ?StableLM Tuned Alpha 7B 867.6±27.4 414 536 867.9 No price yet
4 ?ChatGLM 6B 899.8±23.8 413 771 925.3 No price yet
5 ?FastChat-T5 3B 901.9±23.3 412 744 907.5 No price yet
6 ?OpenAssistant Pythia 12B 923.1±19.9 411 1,094 928.2 No price yet
7 ?RWKV-4 Raven 14B 933.5±22.2 410 874 934 No price yet
8 ?ChatGLM2 6B 940.9±26.2 409 566 952.7 No price yet
9 ?MPT 7B Chat 957.4±23.7 408 683 972.8 No price yet
10 ?Alpaca 13B 967.3±22.1 407 954 968.2 No price yet
11 Qwen1.5-4B-ChatAlibaba 969±18.7 406 1,080 1000.8 No price yet
12 ?ChatGLM3 6B 969.8±22.9 405 816 972.5 No price yet
13 ?GPT4All 13B Snoozy 971.8±37.5 404 250 973.1 No price yet
14 ?Koala 13B 972.7±20.2 403 1,200 979.4 No price yet
15 Gemma 2B ITGoogle 986.2±23 402 696 978.3 No price yet
16 OLMo 7B InstructAi2 989.5±20.1 401 1,019 1003.1 No price yet
17 PaLM 2Google 991.2±17.3 400 1,576 1006.8 No price yet
18 Gemma 1.1 2B ITGoogle 997.7±16.8 399 1,486 1006 No price yet
19 ?Vicuna 7B 1020.8±17.8 398 1,323 1048.5 No price yet
20 Gemma 7B ITGoogle 1023.3±17.6 397 1,345 1033.8 No price yet
21 Phi-3 Mini 128K InstructMicrosoft 1024±13.9 396 2,949 1040.3 No price yet
22 Qwen-14B-ChatAlibaba 1027.4±20.7 395 898 1049.9 No price yet
23 Mistral 7B InstructMistral AI 1028.1±16.9 394 1,689 1030.3 No price yet
24 ?StripedHyena Nous 7B 1029±20.7 393 869 1034.6 No price yet
25 ?SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct 1031.2±34.1 392 341 1024.5 No price yet
26 Code Llama 34B InstructMeta 1031.4±16.6 391 1,507 1048.3 No price yet
27 Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta 1032.5±19.8 390 1,091 1029.7 No price yet
28 Llama 2 7B ChatMeta 1033±13.6 389 2,341 1037.1 No price yet
29 Qwen1.5-7B-ChatAlibaba 1034.3±22.4 388 701 1064.3 No price yet
30 GPT-3.5 Turbo (1106)OpenAI 1034.8±15.3 387 2,828 1091 No price yet
31 Phi-3 Mini 4K InstructMicrosoft 1036.7±12.6 386 2,812 1054.4 No price yet
32 Phi-3 Mini 4K Instruct (June 2024)Microsoft 1044.4±14.5 385 1,955 1056.6 No price yet
33 Granite 3.0 2B InstructIBM 1046±20.7 384 916 1050.5 No price yet
34 Llama 2 13B ChatMeta 1046.6±12.5 383 3,296 1061.5 No price yet
35 ?Vicuna 13B 1057.9±12.6 382 3,346 1078.9 No price yet
36 Gemma 1.1 7B ITGoogle 1059.2±11.7 381 3,409 1073.1 No price yet
37 DeepSeek LLM 67B ChatDeepSeek 1067.2±21.8 380 789 1110.6 No price yet
38 Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2Mistral AI 1067.4±12.5 379 2,952 1073 No price yet
39 ?Zephyr 7B Alpha 1068.5±29.9 378 399 1081.6 No price yet
40 Granite 3.0 8B InstructIBM 1070.4±20.4 377 895 1078.4 No price yet
41 ?MPT 30B Chat 1073.8±28.6 376 452 1079.3 No price yet
42 Llama 2 70B ChatMeta 1074.6±10 375 6,376 1092.7 No price yet
43 ?Guanaco 33B 1079.7±27.2 374 515 1066.3 No price yet
44 ?Snowflake Arctic Instruct 1080.7±12 373 4,777 1100.9 No price yet
45 Phi-3 Small 8K InstructMicrosoft 1082.6±12.9 372 2,400 1093.7 No price yet
46 Qwen1.5-32B-ChatAlibaba 1082.7±12.3 371 3,022 1118.1 No price yet
47 ?Dolphin 2.2.1 Mistral 7B 1085.5±33.1 370 291 1085.9 No price yet
48 ?Falcon 180B Chat 1088.3±36.5 369 270 1105.1 No price yet
49 SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0Upstage 1089.1±24 368 698 1087.8 No price yet
50 WizardLM 13BMicrosoft 1090.2±17.8 367 1,375 1098.2 No price yet
51 Qwen1.5-14B-ChatAlibaba 1090.3±14 365 2,391 1112.3 No price yet
52 Llama 2 70B SteerLM ChatNVIDIA 1090.3±24.4 366 604 1094.4 No price yet
53 GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125)OpenAI 1092.1±8.8 364 9,694 1139 No price yet
54 ?OpenChat 3.5 (0106) 1092.2±14.8 363 1,858 1105.2 No price yet
55 Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta 1093.9±18.9 362 1,070 1095.5 No price yet
56 ?Starling LM 7B Beta 1095.4±14.3 361 2,376 1111.1 No price yet
57 ?OpenHermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 1096.9±21.6 360 811 1095.9 No price yet
58 ?Starling LM 7B Alpha 1098.9±15.3 359 1,701 1098.3 No price yet
59 ?Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO 1101.4±23.2 358 616 1105 No price yet
60 ?Zephyr 7B Beta 1102.1±15.9 357 1,993 1085.7 No price yet
61 Gemini ProGoogle 1103.6±20.7 356 953 1126.8 No price yet
62 ?DBRX Instruct Preview 1104±11.5 355 4,808 1121.5 No price yet
63 ?Tulu 2 DPO 70B 1104.7±19.2 354 1,126 1123.3 No price yet
64 Phi-3 Medium 4K InstructMicrosoft 1106.2±10.8 353 3,735 1126.4 No price yet
65 ?Yi 34B Chat 1107.8±13.7 352 2,379 1116.6 No price yet
66 Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI 1108.5±8.6 351 11,172 1122.8 No price yet
67 ?Zephyr ORPO 141B A35B v0.1 1112.9±23.1 350 635 1139.1 No price yet
68 Granite 3.1 2B InstructIBM 1115.7±28.8 349 442 1092 No price yet
69 DeepSeek-Coder-V2DeepSeek 1120±13.3 348 2,271 1170.3 No price yet
70 ?InternLM2.5 20B Chat 1122.5±15.9 347 1,432 1135.9 No price yet
71 ?Reka Flash 21B (20240226) 1123.6±12.1 346 3,490 1152.2 No price yet
72 ?Vicuna 33B 1124.4±11.9 345 4,010 1118.8 No price yet
73 ?OpenChat 3.5 1125.3±17.9 344 1,454 1116.8 No price yet
74 Granite 3.1 8B InstructIBM 1128.6±26.4 343 450 1138.5 No price yet
75 Gemini Pro (Dev API)Google 1130.2±13.8 342 3,046 1143.9 No price yet
76 ?Reka Flash 21B (Online, 20240226) 1130.3±14.3 341 2,119 1160.3 No price yet
77 QwQ-32B-PreviewAlibaba 1133.5±28.2 340 454 1139.4 No price yet
78 ?Yi 1.5 34B Chat 1134.9±11 339 3,602 1144.1 No price yet
79 Qwen1.5-72B-ChatAlibaba 1136.8±10 338 5,888 1159.1 No price yet
80 Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI 1141.1±9.3 337 7,447 1161 No price yet
81 Gemma 2 2B ITGoogle 1146.5±8.2 336 7,094 1157.1 No price yet
82 Qwen1.5-110B-ChatAlibaba 1147.7±11.6 335 3,677 1170.5 No price yet
83 WizardLM 70BMicrosoft 1148.9±16.7 334 1,779 1144.5 No price yet
84 Llama 3 8B InstructMeta 1149.6±8.1 333 15,365 1147.8 No price yet
85 Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta 1154.1±8.3 331 7,346 1162 No price yet
86 Command RCohere 1154.1±9.7 332 7,836 1161.7 No price yet
87 Claude 3 Haiku (20240307)Anthropic 1157.1±7.5 330 16,718 1193.9 No price yet
88 Mistral MediumMistral AI 1157.5±10.8 329 5,549 1172 No price yet
89 Mistral Large (2402)Mistral AI 1160.8±9.3 328 9,056 1179.7 No price yet
90 ?Jamba 1.5 Mini 1164.1±15.5 327 1,399 1165.4 No price yet
91 Hunyuan Standard 256KTencent 1164.8±28.5 326 357 1173.4 No price yet
92 Aya Expanse 8BCohere 1167.8±14.9 325 1,528 1185.5 No price yet
93 Command R (08-2024)Cohere 1169.7±15.3 324 1,421 1193 No price yet
94 Amazon Nova Micro 1.0Amazon 1171.5±10.7 323 3,061 1192.2 No price yet
95 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-InstructAlibaba 1173.7±19.1 322 836 1191 No price yet
96 Ministral 8B (2410)Mistral AI 1174.5±21.4 321 678 1180.6 No price yet
97 Qwen2-72B-InstructAlibaba 1180.7±9.5 320 5,504 1201.6 No price yet
98 Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8BAi2 1181.2±25.1 319 472 1177.6 No price yet
99 Phi-4Microsoft 1181.3±9.6 318 4,062 1197.8 No price yet
100 Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229)Anthropic 1185.9±8.2 317 15,592 1217.7 No price yet
101 MercuryInception 1189±38.2 316 295 1229.3 No price yet
102 GPT-4 (0314)OpenAI 1190±9.9 315 8,231 1218.7 No price yet
103 GPT-4 (0613)OpenAI 1191.2±8.3 314 13,932 1213.9 No price yet
104 Mistral Small 24B Instruct (2501)Mistral AI 1194.4±12.1 313 2,415 1213.9 No price yet
105 Amazon Nova Lite 1.0Amazon 1196.6±10.5 312 3,037 1211.1 No price yet
106 GLM-4 (0520)Z.ai 1197.7±15.1 311 1,547 1210.5 No price yet
107 OLMo 2 32B Instruct (0325)Ai2 1198.3±24.7 310 567 1203.6 No price yet
108 Aya Expanse 32BCohere 1199.5±9.9 309 3,853 1222.1 No price yet
109 Command R+Cohere 1200.7±8.6 308 11,012 1218.7 No price yet
110 gpt-oss-20bOpenAI 1201±17.8 307 1,234 1238.3 No price yet
111 ?Reka Flash (20240904) 1202±17.4 306 1,037 1217.1 No price yet
112 Nemotron-4 340B InstructNVIDIA 1202.3±11.6 305 3,152 1223.3 No price yet
113 Gemma 2 9B ITGoogle 1205.3±7.5 304 8,340 1219 No price yet
114 Granite 4.2 3BIBM 1207±27.8 303 637 1218.5 No price yet
115 Granite-4.0-H-SmallIBM 1209.5±23.2 301 706 1227.3 No price yet
116 Llama 3 70B InstructMeta 1209.5±7.5 302 22,753 1206 No price yet
117 ?Jamba 1.5 Large 1211.5±15.9 300 1,379 1227.6 No price yet
118 Amazon Nova Pro 1.0Amazon 1212.1±9.5 299 3,944 1246.5 No price yet
119 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51B InstructNVIDIA 1213±25.3 298 482 1219.9 No price yet
120 Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001)Google 1217.3±8.8 297 5,031 1226.7 No price yet
121 Qwen2.5-72B-InstructAlibaba 1221±8.4 296 5,684 1246.9 No price yet
122 Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)Google 1221.9±8.4 295 9,031 1251.8 No price yet
123 Olmo 3.1 32B ThinkAi2 1226.6±17 294 1,366 1250 No price yet
124 Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 70BAi2 1231±24.4 293 441 1254.3 No price yet
125 Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta 1231.6±7.8 292 8,250 1235.7 No price yet
126 GPT-4 Turbo Preview (0125)OpenAI 1232.2±8.1 291 13,940 1257.2 No price yet
127 Claude 3.5 Haiku (20241022)Anthropic 1232.3±6.4 290 9,835 1256.3 No price yet
128 ?Athene V2 Chat 1234.1±9.7 289 3,713 1254.1 No price yet
129 Command R+ (08-2024)Cohere 1234.4±15 288 1,474 1241 No price yet
130 Claude 3 Opus (20240229)Anthropic 1234.6±6.5 287 28,395 1268.6 No price yet
131 Granite 4.2 8BIBM 1234.9±26.9 286 635 1269 No price yet
132 ?Reka Core (20240904) 1236±18 285 1,037 1242.4 No price yet
133 DeepSeek-V2.5DeepSeek 1236.5±10.5 284 3,450 1246.8 No price yet
134 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620)Anthropic 1237.9±7.6 283 12,430 1280 No price yet
135 ?Athene 70B (0725) 1238.1±11.2 282 3,097 1240.8 No price yet
136 ?Gemma 2 9B IT SimPO 1238.5±14.5 281 1,671 1225.9 No price yet
137 Gemma 2 27B ITGoogle 1240.4±6.8 280 11,429 1248.7 No price yet
138 Grok 2 mini (2024-08-13)xAI 1241.3±7.7 279 7,924 1262.2 No price yet
139 Mistral Large (2411)Mistral AI 1241.6±9 278 4,439 1260.4 No price yet
140 Hunyuan Standard (2025-02-10)Tencent 1241.9±23.4 277 590 1257 No price yet
141 Mistral Large 2 (2407)Mistral AI 1242.6±8.5 276 6,692 1257.9 No price yet
142 GPT-4 Turbo Preview (1106)OpenAI 1244±7.9 274 15,576 1264.4 No price yet
143 o1-miniOpenAI 1244±7.6 275 7,858 1279.9 No price yet
144 Magistral Medium (2506)Mistral AI 1245.1±16.4 273 1,350 1256.8 No price yet
145 Hunyuan Large VisionTencent 1247.6±24 272 628 1258.9 No price yet
146 Qwen-Max (0919)Alibaba 1247.9±12 271 2,358 1270.2 No price yet
147 Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E InstructMeta 1248.7±10 270 3,759 1268.5 No price yet
148 GPT-5 nano (High)OpenAI 1249.6±19.7 269 910 1283.3 No price yet
149 Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta 1250.2±7 268 8,045 1255 No price yet
150 Granite 4.1 8BIBM 1250.4±24.6 267 696 1259.5 No price yet
151 Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct (2503)Mistral AI 1252.1±9.4 266 4,114 1268.6 No price yet
152 Olmo 3 32B ThinkAi2 1256±20.6 265 863 1268 No price yet
153 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct (BF16)Meta 1259.5±7.6 264 6,512 1270.5 No price yet
154 GPT-4.1 nano (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1259.8±18.2 263 1,005 1260.9 No price yet
155 Qwen2.5-Plus (1127)Alibaba 1261.6±14.4 262 1,591 1273.4 No price yet
156 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct (FP8)Meta 1261.7±7.7 261 8,948 1274.2 No price yet
157 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1262.6±10.1 260 4,905 1286 No price yet
158 GLM-4-PlusZ.ai 1263.4±10.2 259 3,801 1278.6 No price yet
159 Hunyuan Large (2025-02-10)Tencent 1264.1±23.6 258 568 1270.9 No price yet
160 Olmo 3.1 32B InstructAi2 1264.5±14.7 257 1,726 1275.5 No price yet
161 Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E InstructMeta 1266.1±8.5 256 5,151 1277.3 No price yet
162 GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI 1267.5±6.9 255 10,486 1281.9 No price yet
163 GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)OpenAI 1268.2±7.7 254 14,396 1278.7 No price yet
164 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNVIDIA 1268.3±18.6 253 1,001 1252.6 No price yet
165 Hunyuan Turbo (0110)Tencent 1268.7±24.8 252 451 1290.5 No price yet
166 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B (BF16)NVIDIA 1269.5±12.5 251 2,414 1283.8 No price yet
167 Ring-flash-2.0Ant Group 1269.9±19.7 250 888 1297.2 No price yet
168 Gemma 3 4B ITGoogle 1270.2±21.8 248 666 1288.1 No price yet
169 Hunyuan TurboS (20250226)Tencent 1270.2±25.7 249 424 1301.9 No price yet
170 Qwen3-30B-A3BAlibaba 1271.1±10.3 247 3,340 1290.3 No price yet
171 Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)Google 1272.2±8.1 246 11,797 1288.7 No price yet
172 o3-miniOpenAI 1272.7±7 245 8,160 1294.6 No price yet
173 GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI 1274.3±8.5 244 6,756 1289.6 No price yet
174 gpt-oss-120bOpenAI 1274.4±9.7 243 3,907 1305.5 No price yet
175 ?Yi Lightning 1279.8±10.4 242 3,781 1276.3 No price yet
176 Gemini Advanced (0514)Google 1283.9±9.8 241 7,025 1286.2 No price yet
177 Grok 2 (2024-08-13)xAI 1284±7.4 240 9,339 1291.9 No price yet
178 DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)DeepSeek 1284.9±17.2 239 1,090 1283 No price yet
179 Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)Google 1285.2±8.9 238 5,017 1293.4 No price yet
180 o3-mini (High)OpenAI 1285.6±10.7 237 3,065 1313.2 No price yet
181 MiniMax-M2MiniMax 1286.5±20 236 895 1294.8 No price yet
182 Gemma 3n E4B ITGoogle 1286.9±11.1 235 2,854 1287 No price yet
183 Ling-flash-2.0Ant Group 1287.3±20.1 234 854 1295.8 No price yet
184 QwQ-32BAlibaba 1287.4±9.8 233 3,680 1301.1 No price yet
185 Granite 4.2 30BIBM 1287.6±25.1 232 661 1306.6 No price yet
186 Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1NVIDIA 1287.8±26.9 231 428 1300.5 No price yet
187 Mercury 2Inception 1288.8±25.5 230 547 1302.5 No price yet
188 GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI 1291.2±7.1 229 16,599 1297.7 No price yet
189 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022)Anthropic 1291.9±6.3 228 11,714 1313.7 No price yet
190 Qwen-Plus (0125)Alibaba 1292.2±18.4 227 931 1296 No price yet
191 Amazon Nova 2 LiteAmazon 1292.4±14.4 226 1,762 1318.2 No price yet
192 o4-mini (2025-04-16)OpenAI 1293.7±8.2 225 5,786 1315.4 No price yet
193 GLM-4.5VZ.ai 1294.9±22.7 224 613 1302.3 No price yet
194 GLM-4.7-FlashZ.ai 1296±13.7 223 1,873 1319.7 No price yet
195 Qwen3-32BAlibaba 1297±22.3 222 616 1298.3 No price yet
196 MiniMax-M1MiniMax 1297.5±9 221 4,503 1310.6 No price yet
197 GPT-4.1 mini (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1299.3±8.7 220 5,084 1318.6 No price yet
198 Mistral Small 3.2 (2506)Mistral AI 1304.5±12.7 219 2,147 1309.8 No price yet
199 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (10-09)Amazon 1306.3±31.3 218 321 1321.1 No price yet
200 Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1.5NVIDIA 1306.5±29 217 370 1293.4 No price yet
201 Step-1o Turbo (202506)StepFun 1307±18.9 216 992 1309.5 No price yet
202 ?Trinity Large Thinking 1308.4±9.3 215 4,735 1317.4 No price yet
203 GLM-4-Plus (0111)Z.ai 1310.6±19 214 918 1326.3 No price yet
204 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1NVIDIA 1314±26.4 213 444 1300.2 No price yet
205 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-ThinkingAlibaba 1314.1±14.1 212 1,777 1330.3 No price yet
206 GPT-5.4 nano (High)OpenAI 1314.2±7.2 211 10,363 1337.5 No price yet
207 ?INTELLECT-3 1316±20.7 210 834 1335.5 No price yet
208 Qwen3-235B-A22BAlibaba 1316.1±10 209 3,565 1336.1 No price yet
209 Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219)Anthropic 1316.5±8.1 208 5,938 1323.9 No price yet
210 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12BNVIDIA 1316.8±17.5 207 1,120 1331.3 No price yet
211 Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (2507)Alibaba 1317±10.9 206 2,963 1335.8 No price yet
212 Solar Pro 4Upstage 1317.8±9.3 205 5,337 1344 No price yet
213 o1-previewOpenAI 1317.9±10 204 4,508 1339.5 No price yet
214 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (10-20)Amazon 1318.4±14.9 203 1,589 1350.7 No price yet
215 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05)Google 1318.7±9.2 202 4,104 1321.5 No price yet
216 Command A (03-2025)Cohere 1318.9±7.1 201 7,600 1327.6 No price yet
217 ?Trinity Large Preview 1319.6±9.1 200 4,767 1328.5 No price yet
218 Step-3StepFun 1321.5±20.8 199 772 1326.4 No price yet
219 Kimi K2 Preview (0711)Moonshot AI 1323.5±10.3 198 3,413 1328.2 No price yet
220 GPT-5 mini (High)OpenAI 1325.1±10.2 197 3,522 1344.3 No price yet
221 Step-2 16K Exp (202412)StepFun 1327.4±20.6 196 751 1303.5 No price yet
222 DeepSeek-V3DeepSeek 1328.8±10 195 3,623 1331.1 No price yet
223 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (26-01-10)Amazon 1329.6±24.4 194 580 1347 No price yet
224 MiniMax-M2.5MiniMax 1330.6±7.8 193 6,668 1345.4 No price yet
225 Gemma 3 12B ITGoogle 1331.1±23 192 600 1307.1 No price yet
226 Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking 32K, 20250219)Anthropic 1331.6±8.6 191 5,148 1337.7 No price yet
227 Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)Google 1332.4±7.3 190 8,062 1326.2 No price yet
228 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructAlibaba 1332.9±10.6 189 3,241 1339.7 No price yet
229 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-InstructAlibaba 1333.3±10.8 188 3,038 1354.8 No price yet
230 Grok 3 Mini (High)xAI 1334.3±13.6 186 1,908 1346 No price yet
231 TInkling-SmallThinking Machines 1334.3±8 187 7,686 1357.4 No price yet
232 Claude Haiku 5.5 (High)Anthropic 1335.6±16.6 185 1,437 1370.1 $0.1 / $0.5 $0.2 6,678
233 Muse GlimmerMeta 1338.3±22.6 184 734 1356 No price yet
234 Qwen2.5-MaxAlibaba 1338.4±8.6 183 5,012 1346 No price yet
235 Gemini 2.0 Flash (001)Google 1339.2±7.7 182 6,275 1346.9 No price yet
236 Hy3 previewTencent 1340.2±18.9 181 1,046 1370.6 No price yet
237 Grok 3 Mini BetaxAI 1341.5±11.5 180 2,574 1344.9 No price yet
238 Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)Anthropic 1342±8.9 179 4,910 1350.6 No price yet
239 GLM-4.5-AirZ.ai 1343±9.5 178 3,995 1354 No price yet
240 Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba 1343.1±6.9 177 9,741 1368.9 No price yet
241 Mistral Medium 3 (2505)Mistral AI 1343.4±9.5 176 4,064 1351.7 No price yet
242 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-ThinkingAlibaba 1343.9±18.2 175 1,020 1364.6 No price yet
243 Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514)Anthropic 1344.8±9.5 174 4,257 1356.6 No price yet
244 Gemma 3 27B ITGoogle 1345.2±7.6 173 6,303 1347.1 No price yet
245 LongCat-Flash-ChatMeituan 1346.4±15.9 172 1,348 1368.1 No price yet
246 o1 (2024-12-17)OpenAI 1347.2±9 171 4,642 1360 No price yet
247 GLM-4.6VZ.ai 1347.4±28 169 425 1347.2 No price yet
248 Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba 1347.4±8.9 170 4,673 1365.3 No price yet
249 MiMo-V2-Flash (Thinking)Xiaomi 1347.8±13.9 168 1,755 1363.1 No price yet
250 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (11-10)Amazon 1349.3±9.4 167 3,963 1369.9 No price yet
251 Kimi K2 Preview (0905)Moonshot AI 1349.5±15.2 166 1,481 1345.9 No price yet
252 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (12-10)Amazon 1350.4±23.5 165 603 1380.8 No price yet
253 DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek 1354±10.3 164 3,289 1364.3 No price yet
254 MiniMax-M2.7MiniMax 1354.2±6 163 15,100 1376.3 No price yet
255 GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI 1355.2±8.6 162 5,350 1377.8 No price yet
256 Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking)Alibaba 1356.2±9 161 4,569 1366.4 No price yet
257 Step-3.5-FlashStepFun 1357.2±6.7 160 9,784 1371.8 No price yet
258 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Non-Thinking, 09-2025)Google 1358.3±7.5 159 6,621 1368.6 No price yet
259 o3 (2025-04-16)OpenAI 1358.4±7.3 157 7,632 1371.5 No price yet
260 Hunyuan TurboS (20250416)Tencent 1358.4±15.4 158 1,483 1351.1 No price yet
261 MiniMax-M2.1 PreviewMiniMax 1362.3±11.1 156 2,811 1373 No price yet
262 Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba 1362.6±9.4 155 4,297 1380.7 No price yet
263 GPT-6 Luna (Max)OpenAI 1362.7±6.4 154 16,380 1382.8 $0.1 / $0.5 $0.2 6,814
264 GPT-4.1 (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1363.4±7.6 153 6,655 1371.2 No price yet
265 Mistral Large 4Mistral AI 1363.8±12.9 152 2,383 1387.4 $1.36 / $4.18 $2.065 660
266 DeepSeek-V3 (0324)DeepSeek 1363.9±8 151 5,990 1364.7 No price yet
267 GPT-5 (High)OpenAI 1364.2±9.5 150 4,244 1379 No price yet
268 GPT-5 ChatOpenAI 1364.7±9.5 149 4,014 1384.1 No price yet
269 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-InstructAlibaba 1366±16.8 148 1,354 1392.7 No price yet
270 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17)Google 1366.9±9.3 147 4,150 1374.9 No price yet
271 Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba 1368.1±9.2 146 4,519 1387.5 No price yet
272 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (26-02-10)Amazon 1368.8±25.6 145 481 1390.7 No price yet
273 GPT-5.4 mini (High)OpenAI 1370.2±6.9 144 10,822 1392.9 No price yet
274 Claude Haiku 4.5 (20251001)Anthropic 1370.8±4.6 143 26,153 1386.4 No price yet
275 Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMoonshot AI 1373.4±6.5 142 9,528 1380.5 No price yet
276 Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI 1373.9±13.6 141 2,073 1383.9 $1.5 / $7.5 $3 458
277 Claude Opus 4 (20250514)Anthropic 1374.6±8.6 140 5,412 1381.4 No price yet
278 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct (2507)Alibaba 1374.7±5.4 139 13,888 1390 No price yet
279 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1375.5±20 138 956 1369.4 No price yet
280 GPT-5.2OpenAI 1375.7±6 137 13,929 1391.5 No price yet
281 MiMo-V2-Flash (Non-Thinking)Xiaomi 1376.1±7.3 135 7,347 1383.8 No price yet
282 GPT-5.2 (High)OpenAI 1376.1±7.3 136 7,662 1392 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 286
283 GPT-6 Sol (Max)OpenAI 1377.4±11.6 134 3,130 1388.8 $2 / $10 $4 344
284 Grok 4 Fast (Reasoning)xAI 1378±11.8 133 2,491 1380.7 No price yet
285 Grok 4.3xAI 1379.8±6.5 132 13,224 1384.7 No price yet
286 Qwen3-Max (2025-09-23)Alibaba 1380.6±17 131 1,152 1390.1 No price yet
287 Grok 4.7 (xHigh)xAI 1381.2±11.3 130 3,337 1393.8 $2 / $6 $3 460
288 Kimi K2.5 (Instant)Moonshot AI 1382.4±16 129 1,323 1397.4 No price yet
289 Qwen3.8-27BAlibaba 1382.9±9 128 5,342 1405.3 $0.2 / $2.5 $0.775 1,784
290 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking (2507)Alibaba 1383.6±17.7 127 1,083 1387.6 No price yet
291 Claude Opus 4 (Thinking 16K, 20250514)Anthropic 1385.9±9.3 126 4,465 1391.6 No price yet
292 Grok 4 Fast (Non-Reasoning)xAI 1386.3±20 125 889 1390.9 No price yet
293 Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (09-2025)Google 1386.4±9 124 4,549 1395.1 No price yet
294 Mistral Large 3Mistral AI 1386.7±5.4 123 15,748 1397.6 No price yet
295 DeepSeek-V3.1DeepSeek 1387.7±13.4 122 1,975 1397.3 No price yet
296 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp (Thinking)DeepSeek 1388±17.3 120 1,194 1396.2 No price yet
297 LongCat-Flash-Chat Exp (2602)Meituan 1388±9.3 121 4,448 1388.4 No price yet
298 DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)DeepSeek 1389.3±7.6 119 6,410 1398.5 No price yet
299 Hunyuan Vision 1.5 ThinkingTencent 1389.4±36.3 118 250 1387.8 No price yet
300 TInklingThinking Machines 1389.9±7.3 117 9,441 1405 No price yet
301 Mistral Medium 3.1 (2508)Mistral AI 1390.7±5.5 116 14,041 1395.3 No price yet
302 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)DeepSeek 1390.8±27.7 115 435 1409.9 No price yet
303 RBeam 1.0 501B A23BReflection AI 1391±19.7 114 968 1401 No price yet
304 MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomi 1392.2±10.7 113 3,449 1396.4 No price yet
305 MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi 1392.5±7.7 112 7,903 1409.1 $0.119 / $0.238 $0.149 9,358
306 Hunyuan T1 (20250711)Tencent 1393.1±23.7 111 616 1385.3 No price yet
307 GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27)OpenAI 1393.6±11.9 110 2,618 1411.6 No price yet
308 Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)xAI 1394.4±6.7 109 9,004 1387.2 No price yet
309 GLM-4.5Z.ai 1395.1±10.8 108 3,094 1402.8 No price yet
310 GPT-5.6 Luna (xHigh)OpenAI 1395.9±7.5 107 8,692 1418.9 $0.2 / $1.2 $0.45 3,102
311 Grok 4 (0709)xAI 1396.6±8.4 106 5,346 1399.1 No price yet
312 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1398.3±13.4 105 2,192 1405.4 No price yet
313 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Preview (High)DeepSeek 1398.7±7.5 104 8,659 1408.7 No price yet
314 DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek 1399.4±7.5 103 6,884 1406.9 $0.28 / $0.42 $0.315 4,443
315 Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle 1399.9±4.9 102 17,647 1405.3 No price yet
316 DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)DeepSeek 1400.9±14.7 101 1,616 1404.4 No price yet
317 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PreviewGoogle 1401±6.8 99 10,590 1408.1 No price yet
318 GPT-5.2 Chat (20260210)OpenAI 1401±8.4 100 5,637 1422 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 291
319 Qwen3-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1401.1±9.9 98 3,731 1407 No price yet
320 Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle 1401.2±18.2 97 1,000 1405.4 No price yet
321 GLM-4.7Z.ai 1401.3±13.1 96 1,961 1411 No price yet
322 Qwen3.5-397B-A17BAlibaba 1402.5±5.5 95 17,199 1415.8 No price yet
323 MiniMax-M3MiniMax 1402.7±6.4 94 12,398 1417.7 $0.3 / $1.2 $0.525 2,672
324 DeepSeek-V4-FlashDeepSeek 1402.9±7.5 93 8,579 1409.9 $0.091 / $0.182 $0.114 12,328
325 DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpDeepSeek 1403.2±14.4 92 1,665 1407.4 No price yet
326 DeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusDeepSeek 1403.4±27.4 91 446 1408.4 No price yet
327 GPT-5.1OpenAI 1403.5±7.8 89 6,675 1411.7 No price yet
328 Grok 4.1 (Thinking)xAI 1403.5±6.5 90 10,134 1404.2 No price yet
329 Qwen3.6-PlusAlibaba 1403.7±7.8 88 7,215 1418 No price yet
330 MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi 1404.3±12.2 87 2,741 1424.6 $0.14 / $0.28 $0.175 8,025
331 Hy3Tencent 1404.8±12 86 2,655 1415.2 $0.132 / $0.528 $0.231 6,081
332 ChatGPT-4o Latest (20250326)OpenAI 1405±5.9 85 11,530 1414.6 No price yet
333 DeepSeek-R1 (0528)DeepSeek 1405.3±12.4 84 2,409 1401.3 No price yet
334 Dola Seed 2.0 ProByteDance 1406.2±6.2 83 13,216 1409.6 No price yet
335 Claude Opus 4.1 (20250805)Anthropic 1410.4±6.2 82 10,881 1418 No price yet
336 Grok 4.1xAI 1411±6.6 81 10,078 1407.2 No price yet
337 Step 5 PreviewStepFun 1411.4±13.8 80 2,061 1429.4 $1 / $2.7 $1.425 991
338 GLM-4.6Z.ai 1411.7±8.5 79 5,149 1415.7 $0.55 / $2.2 $0.963 1,467
339 Claude Opus 4.1 (Thinking 16K, 20250805)Anthropic 1412±7.6 78 6,868 1417.9 No price yet
340 GPT-5.6 Terra (xHigh)OpenAI 1413±7.1 77 9,947 1431.8 $2 / $12 $4.5 314
341 Grok 3 Preview (02-24)xAI 1413.9±9.1 76 4,713 1410.9 No price yet
342 MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi 1415.3±10.1 75 3,738 1424.1 No price yet
343 Claude Sonnet 5 (High)Anthropic 1416±6.9 73 10,786 1435.9 $2 / $10 $4 354
344 Gemma 4 31BGoogle 1416±18.6 74 971 1431.3 No price yet
345 ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1022)Baidu 1416.3±21.7 72 741 1409 No price yet
346 GLM-5V-TurboZ.ai 1417.7±14.1 71 1,968 1420.7 No price yet
347 GPT-5.5 InstantOpenAI 1418.2±9.6 70 4,357 1421.5 No price yet
348 GPT-6 Astra (Max)OpenAI 1420.5±11.5 69 3,150 1439.6 $10 / $50 $20 71
349 Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle 1420.6±7.9 68 7,475 1427.5 No price yet
350 Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)Moonshot AI 1422.1±6.2 67 12,271 1425.2 $0.5 / $2.5 $1 1,422
351 ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1203)Baidu 1422.2±15 66 1,580 1414.3 No price yet
352 GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)OpenAI 1424.4±14.8 65 1,871 1442.4 $2 / $10 $4 356
353 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (High, 32K, 20250929)Anthropic 1424.6±5.9 64 12,699 1431.8 No price yet
354 ERNIE 5.0 (0110)Baidu 1426.2±8.1 63 5,765 1421.5 No price yet
355 GPT-5.1 (High)OpenAI 1427.1±8 62 6,243 1427.8 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 415
356 GPT-5.4OpenAI 1427.7±6.8 61 11,336 1448.7 No price yet
357 Grok 4.6 (High)xAI 1427.9±8.1 60 7,194 1431.2 $2 / $6 $3 476
358 Grok 4.20 Beta (Reasoning, 0309)xAI 1432±6.7 59 11,437 1433.7 No price yet
359 Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI 1433.6±8.2 58 6,329 1439 $0.65 / $3.41 $1.34 1,070
360 Muse Spark 1.1Meta 1434.6±7.1 57 9,741 1447.2 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 717
361 Muse Spark 1.2 (xHigh)Meta 1434.7±13.5 56 2,219 1453.8 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 717
362 Gemini 3 Flash (Minimal)Google 1435.2±5.8 55 15,198 1436.2 No price yet
363 Qwen3.6-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1435.3±22.4 54 757 1443.7 No price yet
364 Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic 1435.4±6.5 53 12,386 1443.9 $3 / $15 $6 239
365 Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta (0309)xAI 1436.2±6.7 52 11,296 1430.7 No price yet
366 GLM-5Z.ai 1437.9±8.9 51 4,859 1436.4 $1 / $3.2 $1.55 928
367 Qwen3.7-PlusAlibaba 1438±7.6 49 7,839 1437.6 $0.32 / $1.28 $0.56 2,568
368 MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi 1438±6.1 50 14,635 1451 $0.305 / $0.609 $0.381 3,778
369 Grok 4.20 Beta 1xAI 1438.4±9.6 48 4,185 1427.6 No price yet
370 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max)DeepSeek 1438.5±11.8 47 2,830 1450.9 $0.02 / $1 $0.265 5,428
371 DeepSeek-V4-Pro (High, 20260813)DeepSeek 1438.6±13.8 46 1,996 1442.7 $0.955 / $1.911 $1.194 1,205
372 GPT-5.4 (High)OpenAI 1439±6.9 45 11,126 1458.4 $2.5 / $15 $5.625 256
373 DeepSeek-V4-Pro Preview (High)DeepSeek 1440.8±7.3 43 9,401 1437.6 No price yet
374 GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai 1440.8±7.7 44 8,207 1455.1 $0.15 / $0.5 $0.238 6,067
375 ERNIE 5.1Baidu 1440.9±8.3 42 6,457 1449.2 No price yet
376 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (20250929)Anthropic 1441.6±6 41 12,417 1441.8 No price yet
377 Grok 4.5xAI 1441.8±7.6 40 8,288 1444.9 $2 / $6 $3 481
378 Claude Opus 4.5 (20251101)Anthropic 1443±6.3 39 11,407 1451.6 $5 / $25 $10 144
379 Claude Opus 4.5 (High, 32K, 20251101)Anthropic 1444.8±8.2 38 5,692 1444.8 No price yet
380 DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek 1446.2±7.2 37 9,731 1447.1 $0.435 / $0.87 $0.544 2,659
381 Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic 1446.4±6.5 36 12,844 1452.7 No price yet
382 Qwen3.7-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1447.7±26.6 35 511 1461.6 $1.475 / $4.425 $2.213 654
383 GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh)OpenAI 1450.2±7.4 34 8,988 1462.8 $4 / $20 $8 181
384 GPT-5.5OpenAI 1452.3±6.5 33 13,417 1463.9 No price yet
385 GLM-5.1Z.ai 1452.6±6.3 32 12,807 1454.6 $1.4 / $4.4 $2.15 676
386 Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle 1453.7±5.1 31 17,700 1453.9 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 423
387 Claude Opus 4.8 (High)Anthropic 1454.4±6.5 30 12,810 1461.5 $5 / $25 $10 145
388 GPT-5.5 (High)OpenAI 1455.3±6.5 29 13,161 1466.3 $5 / $30 $11.25 129
389 Kimi K3 (Max)Moonshot AI 1456.2±7.9 28 7,248 1469.9 $0.202 / $20 $5.152 283
390 Gemini 3 FlashGoogle 1456.8±9.2 27 4,833 1459.1 $0.5 / $3 $1.125 1,295
391 Muse SparkMeta 1458.7±13.6 26 2,047 1454.1 No price yet
392 GLM-5.3 (Max)Z.ai 1459.2±8.8 25 5,741 1469 $0.07 / $1.4 $0.402 3,626
393 GLM-5.2 (Max)Z.ai 1461.6±6.9 24 10,456 1462.6 $0.034 / $7 $1.776 823
394 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)Meta 1462.4±9.8 23 4,562 1470.3 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 731
395 Qwen3.5-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1464.2±10.7 22 3,323 1466.4 No price yet
396 Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)Google 1466.1±7.9 21 7,584 1469.9 $0.75 / $3.75 $1.5 977
397 MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi 1466.4±21.1 20 792 1469.7 $0.435 / $0.87 $0.544 2,697
398 Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)Google 1467.6±7.2 19 9,477 1477.4 $1.5 / $9 $3.375 435
399 Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Anthropic 1468.3±14.1 18 2,058 1475.7 $2 / $10 $4 367
400 Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)Google 1470.1±7.3 17 9,480 1472.6 No price yet
401 Qwen3.8-MaxAlibaba 1477.4±8.5 16 6,134 1476.8 $2 / $6 $3 493
402 Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic 1479.7±6.8 15 12,036 1479.1 No price yet
403 Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle 1481.8±5.2 14 24,371 1480.9 $2 / $12 $4.5 329
404 Gemini 3 ProGoogle 1482.5±8.1 13 6,542 1478.1 $2 / $12 $4.5 329
405 Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic 1483.7±6 12 15,623 1492.1 No price yet
406 Claude Opus 4.7 (High)Anthropic 1486.2±6.9 11 11,804 1492.5 $5 / $25 $10 149
407 Claude Opus 5 (High)Anthropic 1486.5±6.5 10 15,881 1492.6 No price yet
408 Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Google 1489.1±8.4 9 6,770 1491.5 $0.75 / $3.75 $1.5 993
409 Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)Google 1489.4±7.4 8 9,817 1494 $0.825 / $4.125 $1.65 903
410 Muse Wonder (Max)Meta 1492.6±17 7 1,350 1497.2 $4 / $20 $8 187
411 Claude Fable 5 (High)Anthropic 1493.4±7.2 6 9,586 1501.1 $10 / $50 $20 75
412 Claude Opus 5 (Max)Anthropic 1494.6±8 5 7,903 1499.3 $5 / $25 $10 150
413 Claude Opus 4.6 (High)Anthropic 1504.8±6.1 4 15,413 1501.7 $5 / $25 $10 151
414 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)Anthropic 1509.7±10.9 3 3,729 1511.9 $10 / $50 $20 76
415 Gemini 4 Argon (High)Google 1523.1±13.4 2 2,335 1524.4 $2 / $10 $4 381
416 Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Anthropic 1534.2±13.6 1 2,453 1532.1 $4 / $20 $8 192

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Data: LMArena (lmarena-ai), CC-BY-4.0 · Creative writing · published Oct 22, 2026

Sources & method

  1. Only the latest LMArena publish date is used; score, CI, votes and rank are copied from the dataset.
  2. Reasoning tiers of one model (e.g. High / Max) are separate LMArena entries and are listed separately.
  3. Prices are shown only when the entry maps to our LLM leaderboard; otherwise –, never estimated.
  4. Score ÷ blended price (3:1 input:output). A rough value indicator only.
  5. Synced daily at 06:35 UTC; if the source fails, the last good snapshot is kept.

FAQ

What is the best AI for writing?

In LMArena's creative writing category published Oct 22, 2026, #1 is Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1534.2, 2,453 votes).

Claude or Gemini: which is better for writing?

Top creative-writing scores: Claude Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1534.2, output $20/1M tokens); Gemini Gemini 4 Argon (High) (1523.1, output $10/1M tokens).

What is the cheapest good LLM for writing?

Among the top 20 for creative writing, the best score per dollar is MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1466.4, #20) at about $0.544/1M tokens blended; the cheapest is MiMo-V2.6-Pro ($0.544/1M, 1466.4).

Which vendors rank highest for writing?

By the creative writing category, each vendor's best model ranks: Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1534.2, #1), Google Gemini 4 Argon (High) (1523.1, #2), Meta Muse Wonder (Max) (1492.6, #7), Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max (1477.4, #16), Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1466.4, #20).

Where do the scores come from?

From LMArena: users submit writing prompts, two anonymous models answer, users vote for the better one, and scores are fitted with a Bradley-Terry model.