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.

"Instruction following" is LMArena's instruction_following category: only prompts with explicit format, length or constraint requirements, reflecting how well a model follows them.

🏆 #1 in Instruction followingData Oct 22, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Anthropic · 1538.8

Claude vs Gemini: which is better for writing?

ModelScoreRankCreative writingInput / outputScore per $
Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Top Claude1538.8±10.711534.2 #1$4 / $20192
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Cheapest Claude in top 201490.5±11.2131468.3 #18$2 / $10373
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Top Gemini1527.6±10.421523.1 #2$2 / $10382
Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Cheapest Gemini in top 201486±6.8151489.1 #9$0.75 / $3.75991

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 · Instruction following

418 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 Creative writing Input / output Blended Score per $
1 Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Anthropic 1538.8±10.7 1 3,593 1534.2 $4 / $20 $8 192
2 Gemini 4 Argon (High)Google 1527.6±10.4 2 3,595 1523.1 $2 / $10 $4 382
3 Claude Opus 4.6 (High)Anthropic 1521±4.9 3 26,917 1504.8 $5 / $25 $10 152
4 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)Anthropic 1518.9±9.3 4 4,903 1509.7 $10 / $50 $20 76
5 Claude Opus 5 (Max)Anthropic 1518.4±6.6 5 11,981 1494.6 $5 / $25 $10 152
6 Claude Opus 5 (High)Anthropic 1514.2±5.5 6 25,022 1486.5 $5 / $25 $10 151
7 Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic 1509.9±4.7 7 29,546 1483.7 $5 / $25 $10 151
8 Claude Fable 5 (High)Anthropic 1501.6±5.9 8 15,587 1493.4 $10 / $50 $20 75
9 Claude Opus 4.7 (High)Anthropic 1497.7±5.4 9 22,749 1486.2 $5 / $25 $10 150
10 Muse Wonder (Max)Meta 1492.6±13.3 10 2,104 1492.6 $4 / $20 $8 187
11 Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)Google 1491.6±6.2 11 15,791 1489.4 $0.825 / $4.125 $1.65 904
12 MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi 1490.6±15.8 12 1,390 1466.4 $0.435 / $0.87 $0.544 2,741
13 Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Anthropic 1490.5±11.2 13 3,031 1468.3 $2 / $10 $4 373
14 Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic 1488.7±5.3 14 23,299 1479.7 $5 / $25 $10 149
15 Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Google 1486±6.8 15 10,965 1489.1 $0.75 / $3.75 $1.5 991
16 Kimi K3 (Max)Moonshot AI 1484.6±6.4 16 11,772 1456.2 $0.202 / $20 $5.152 288
17 GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh)OpenAI 1482.7±6 17 14,874 1450.2 $4 / $20 $8 185
18 Qwen3.8-MaxAlibaba 1480.7±6.7 18 10,824 1477.4 $2 / $6 $3 494
19 GLM-5.3 (Max)Z.ai 1480.3±7.3 19 8,368 1459.2 $0.07 / $1.4 $0.402 3,679
20 GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai 1479.1±6.4 20 13,261 1440.8 $0.15 / $0.5 $0.238 6,228
21 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)Meta 1479±7.7 21 7,300 1462.4 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 740
22 GPT-5.5 (High)OpenAI 1478.5±5.3 22 24,012 1455.3 $5 / $30 $11.25 131
23 Claude Opus 4.5 (High, 32K, 20251101)Anthropic 1477.8±6.6 23 9,874 1444.8 $5 / $25 $10 148
24 Claude Opus 4.8 (High)Anthropic 1476.5±5.3 24 22,661 1454.4 $5 / $25 $10 148
25 Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic 1476±5.1 25 23,703 1435.4 $3 / $15 $6 246
26 MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi 1475.2±5 26 26,041 1438 $0.305 / $0.609 $0.381 3,876
27 GPT-5.5OpenAI 1475.2±5.2 27 24,823 1452.3 $5 / $30 $11.25 131
28 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max)DeepSeek 1473.8±9 28 4,815 1438.5 $0.02 / $1 $0.265 5,562
29 Claude Opus 4.5 (20251101)Anthropic 1472.4±4.9 29 21,818 1443 $5 / $25 $10 147
30 GPT-5.4 (High)OpenAI 1469.4±5.4 30 21,857 1439 $2.5 / $15 $5.625 261
31 Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)Google 1466.9±6.3 31 13,097 1466.1 $0.75 / $3.75 $1.5 978
32 GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)OpenAI 1466.9±12.3 32 2,541 1424.4 $2 / $10 $4 367
33 Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)Google 1466.8±5.6 33 17,396 1467.6 $1.5 / $9 $3.375 435
34 Qwen3.5-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1466.8±7.4 34 7,397 1464.2 No price yet
35 Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle 1466.1±4.2 35 44,777 1481.8 $2 / $12 $4.5 326
36 GLM-5.2 (Max)Z.ai 1465.9±5.6 36 18,036 1461.6 $0.034 / $7 $1.776 826
37 Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)Google 1464.5±5.7 37 17,060 1470.1 $1.5 / $9 $3.375 434
38 Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic 1462.9±5.3 38 23,277 1446.4 $5 / $25 $10 146
39 Muse Spark 1.2 (xHigh)Meta 1462.8±10.3 39 3,661 1434.7 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 731
40 Qwen3.7-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1460.3±16.3 40 1,380 1447.7 $1.475 / $4.425 $2.213 660
41 ERNIE 5.1Baidu 1460.2±6.5 41 12,676 1440.9 No price yet
42 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (20250929)Anthropic 1459±4.6 42 24,366 1441.6 No price yet
43 Gemini 3 ProGoogle 1458±6.2 43 11,694 1482.5 $2 / $12 $4.5 324
44 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (High, 32K, 20250929)Anthropic 1458±4.5 44 24,654 1424.6 No price yet
45 Muse Spark 1.1Meta 1456.3±5.7 45 16,535 1434.6 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 728
46 GPT-5.6 Terra (xHigh)OpenAI 1455.4±5.8 46 16,552 1413 $2 / $12 $4.5 323
47 GPT-6 Astra (Max)OpenAI 1455.3±9.3 47 4,439 1420.5 $10 / $50 $20 73
48 GPT-5.4OpenAI 1454.9±5.3 48 23,384 1427.7 $2.5 / $15 $5.625 259
49 GLM-5.1Z.ai 1452.4±4.9 49 22,863 1452.6 $1.4 / $4.4 $2.15 676
50 Claude Sonnet 5 (High)Anthropic 1452.3±5.6 50 18,217 1416 $2 / $10 $4 363
51 Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI 1450.7±6.3 51 13,202 1433.6 $0.65 / $3.41 $1.34 1,083
52 MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi 1448.9±9.3 52 4,551 1404.3 $0.14 / $0.28 $0.175 8,279
53 DeepSeek-V4-Pro (High, 20260813)DeepSeek 1448±10.3 53 3,480 1438.6 $0.955 / $1.911 $1.194 1,213
54 Grok 4.5xAI 1445.4±6.1 54 14,513 1441.8 $2 / $6 $3 482
55 DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek 1445.3±5.6 55 20,032 1446.2 $0.435 / $0.87 $0.544 2,658
56 MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi 1445.3±7 56 8,449 1415.3 No price yet
57 GPT-5.1 (High)OpenAI 1442.6±6.3 57 11,158 1427.1 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 420
58 Muse SparkMeta 1442.6±9 58 4,738 1458.7 No price yet
59 Step 5 PreviewStepFun 1440.9±10.5 59 3,435 1411.4 $1 / $2.7 $1.425 1,011
60 Qwen3.7-PlusAlibaba 1439.6±5.9 60 15,025 1438 $0.32 / $1.28 $0.56 2,571
61 Qwen3.6-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1439.5±13.7 61 1,894 1435.3 No price yet
62 GPT-5.6 Luna (xHigh)OpenAI 1438.1±6 62 14,723 1395.9 $0.2 / $1.2 $0.45 3,196
63 Gemini 3 FlashGoogle 1436.6±7.1 63 8,509 1456.8 $0.5 / $3 $1.125 1,277
64 Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle 1436.6±3.8 64 35,201 1453.7 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 418
65 Qwen3.8-27BAlibaba 1436.1±7 65 9,307 1382.9 $0.2 / $2.5 $0.775 1,853
66 DeepSeek-V4-Pro Preview (High)DeepSeek 1435.9±5.6 66 19,044 1440.8 No price yet
67 Claude Opus 4.1 (Thinking 16K, 20250805)Anthropic 1435.4±5.7 67 13,210 1412 No price yet
68 MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi 1434.7±6.1 68 16,077 1392.5 $0.119 / $0.238 $0.149 9,642
69 Gemma 4 31BGoogle 1433.6±13.6 69 1,798 1416 No price yet
70 Claude Opus 4.1 (20250805)Anthropic 1433.6±4.8 70 20,773 1410.4 No price yet
71 MiniMax-M3MiniMax 1432.2±5.2 71 23,314 1402.7 $0.3 / $1.2 $0.525 2,728
72 Grok 4.6 (High)xAI 1432.2±6.6 72 11,447 1427.9 $2 / $6 $3 477
73 RBeam 1.0 501B A23BReflection AI 1431.1±14.9 73 1,563 1391 No price yet
74 Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)Moonshot AI 1430.7±4.8 74 24,196 1422.1 $0.5 / $2.5 $1 1,431
75 Kimi K2.5 (Instant)Moonshot AI 1429.9±11.8 75 2,341 1382.4 $0.5 / $2.5 $1 1,430
76 MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomi 1428.6±8 76 7,050 1392.2 No price yet
77 GLM-5Z.ai 1427.7±6.5 77 9,591 1437.9 $1 / $3.2 $1.55 921
78 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (26-02-10)Amazon 1427±17.8 78 995 1368.8 No price yet
79 Hy3Tencent 1426.7±9 79 4,760 1404.8 $0.132 / $0.528 $0.231 6,176
80 TInklingThinking Machines 1425.2±5.9 80 15,699 1389.9 No price yet
81 Qwen3.6-PlusAlibaba 1424.4±5.9 81 16,542 1403.7 No price yet
82 GLM-5V-TurboZ.ai 1423.7±10 82 3,695 1417.7 No price yet
83 Mistral Large 4Mistral AI 1423.7±10.2 83 3,619 1363.8 $1.36 / $4.18 $2.065 689
84 Qwen3.5-397B-A17BAlibaba 1423.5±4.4 84 32,959 1402.5 No price yet
85 DeepSeek-V4-FlashDeepSeek 1420.8±5.8 85 17,951 1402.9 $0.091 / $0.182 $0.114 12,485
86 Grok 4.20 Beta (Reasoning, 0309)xAI 1420.5±5.3 86 22,640 1432 No price yet
87 Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle 1420.4±13.4 87 1,739 1401.2 No price yet
88 Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta (0309)xAI 1420.2±5.3 88 21,952 1436.2 No price yet
89 Qwen3-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1419.5±7.3 89 7,317 1401.1 No price yet
90 Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle 1419.4±6.3 90 12,905 1420.6 No price yet
91 GPT-5.1OpenAI 1418.2±5.9 91 12,327 1403.5 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 413
92 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1418.1±9.9 92 3,905 1398.3 No price yet
93 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Preview (High)DeepSeek 1416.9±5.8 93 18,075 1398.7 No price yet
94 GPT-5.2 Chat (20260210)OpenAI 1416.8±6.2 94 11,757 1401 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 294
95 Claude Haiku 5.5 (High)Anthropic 1415.7±13.2 95 2,119 1335.6 $0.1 / $0.5 $0.2 7,079
96 Grok 4.20 Beta 1xAI 1415.2±6.9 96 8,846 1438.4 No price yet
97 Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI 1414.7±9.9 97 3,834 1373.9 $1.5 / $7.5 $3 472
98 Claude Haiku 4.5 (20251001)Anthropic 1414.4±3.7 98 48,859 1370.8 No price yet
99 Gemini 3 Flash (Minimal)Google 1414.2±4.6 99 29,788 1435.2 $0.5 / $3 $1.125 1,257
100 Dola Seed 2.0 ProByteDance 1413.8±4.9 100 26,283 1406.2 No price yet
101 ERNIE 5.0 (0110)Baidu 1413.3±6 101 11,105 1426.2 No price yet
102 DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek 1412.8±5.7 102 13,553 1399.4 $0.28 / $0.42 $0.315 4,485
103 GLM-4.7Z.ai 1411.9±10.3 103 3,305 1401.3 No price yet
104 GPT-6 Sol (Max)OpenAI 1411.2±9 104 4,926 1377.4 $2 / $10 $4 353
105 LongCat-Flash-Chat Exp (2602)Meituan 1410.9±6.7 105 9,648 1388 No price yet
106 GLM-4.6Z.ai 1410.2±6.3 106 10,291 1411.7 $0.55 / $2.2 $0.963 1,465
107 GPT-5.2 (High)OpenAI 1409.3±5.5 107 15,295 1376.1 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 293
108 Grok 3 Preview (02-24)xAI 1408.7±6.6 108 9,646 1413.9 No price yet
109 DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)DeepSeek 1408.4±5.9 109 11,719 1389.3 $0.28 / $0.42 $0.315 4,471
110 Grok 4.7 (xHigh)xAI 1408.2±9.1 110 4,913 1381.2 $2 / $6 $3 469
111 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct (2507)Alibaba 1407.9±4.1 111 27,839 1374.7 No price yet
112 GPT-6 Luna (Max)OpenAI 1407±5.6 112 24,586 1362.7 $0.1 / $0.5 $0.2 7,035
113 GPT-5.5 InstantOpenAI 1406.6±7 113 9,706 1418.2 No price yet
114 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-InstructAlibaba 1406.5±11.3 114 2,943 1366 No price yet
115 Claude Opus 4 (Thinking 16K, 20250514)Anthropic 1406.2±6.9 115 9,154 1385.9 No price yet
116 MiniMax-M2.7MiniMax 1405.3±4.7 116 29,396 1354.2 No price yet
117 Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle 1404.9±3.8 117 34,828 1399.9 No price yet
118 GPT-5.4 mini (High)OpenAI 1404.9±5.4 118 21,733 1370.2 No price yet
119 GLM-4.5Z.ai 1404.3±7.9 119 6,163 1395.1 No price yet
120 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)DeepSeek 1404.3±20.1 120 859 1390.8 No price yet
121 Mistral Large 3Mistral AI 1404±4.3 121 28,173 1386.7 No price yet
122 GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27)OpenAI 1403.8±8.3 122 5,501 1393.6 No price yet
123 Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMoonshot AI 1403.1±4.9 123 18,727 1373.4 No price yet
124 ChatGPT-4o Latest (20250326)OpenAI 1403.1±4.4 124 22,960 1405 No price yet
125 GPT-5.2OpenAI 1402.9±4.7 125 27,783 1375.7 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 292
126 ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1203)Baidu 1401.9±11.2 126 2,685 1422.2 No price yet
127 DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpDeepSeek 1400.7±10.2 127 3,389 1403.2 No price yet
128 DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)DeepSeek 1400.5±11.1 128 2,831 1400.9 No price yet
129 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp (Thinking)DeepSeek 1400.5±11.5 129 2,559 1388 No price yet
130 MiniMax-M2.1 PreviewMiniMax 1400±8.6 130 4,653 1362.3 No price yet
131 Grok 4.1xAI 1399.8±5 131 19,518 1411 No price yet
132 Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba 1399.6±6.6 132 9,563 1368.1 No price yet
133 TInkling-SmallThinking Machines 1398.8±6.3 133 12,873 1334.3 No price yet
134 Qwen3-Max (2025-09-23)Alibaba 1398.1±11.2 134 2,659 1380.6 No price yet
135 LongCat-Flash-ChatMeituan 1397.8±10.8 135 2,940 1346.4 No price yet
136 Mistral Medium 3.1 (2508)Mistral AI 1397.7±4.1 136 27,631 1390.7 No price yet
137 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1397.5±15.9 137 1,432 1375.5 No price yet
138 Hunyuan Vision 1.5 ThinkingTencent 1397.4±22.1 138 625 1389.4 No price yet
139 Grok 4.1 (Thinking)xAI 1395±5 139 19,312 1403.5 No price yet
140 Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (09-2025)Google 1393.6±6.5 140 9,344 1386.4 No price yet
141 Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba 1392.9±6.6 141 9,232 1362.6 No price yet
142 MiMo-V2-Flash (Non-Thinking)Xiaomi 1392.6±5.4 142 14,750 1376.1 No price yet
143 ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1022)Baidu 1392.5±15.3 143 1,357 1416.3 No price yet
144 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-InstructAlibaba 1388.5±7.5 144 6,416 1333.3 No price yet
145 GPT-5 (High)OpenAI 1388.3±7.1 145 8,375 1364.2 No price yet
146 DeepSeek-V3.1DeepSeek 1388.2±9.8 146 3,684 1387.7 No price yet
147 Grok 4 Fast (Non-Reasoning)xAI 1386.9±14.5 147 1,679 1386.3 No price yet
148 Grok 4 (0709)xAI 1386.8±6.2 148 10,842 1396.6 No price yet
149 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (12-10)Amazon 1386.7±18.6 149 945 1350.4 No price yet
150 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (11-10)Amazon 1386.6±7.1 150 7,020 1349.3 No price yet
151 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking (2507)Alibaba 1385.9±12.4 151 2,095 1383.6 No price yet
152 Step-3.5-FlashStepFun 1384.9±5.2 152 19,317 1357.2 No price yet
153 Hy3 previewTencent 1383.3±12.5 153 2,334 1340.2 No price yet
154 Grok 4 Fast (Reasoning)xAI 1382.6±8.2 154 5,329 1378 No price yet
155 DeepSeek-R1 (0528)DeepSeek 1381.4±9.5 155 4,018 1405.3 No price yet
156 GPT-5 ChatOpenAI 1381.1±6.9 156 8,231 1364.7 No price yet
157 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (26-01-10)Amazon 1380.9±17.8 157 994 1329.6 No price yet
158 DeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusDeepSeek 1380.4±17.8 158 1,019 1403.4 No price yet
159 Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba 1379.4±6.4 159 9,930 1347.4 No price yet
160 GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI 1378.4±6.4 160 11,209 1355.2 No price yet
161 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PreviewGoogle 1377.3±5.3 161 21,478 1401 No price yet
162 Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)xAI 1376.1±5.1 162 17,264 1394.4 No price yet
163 Muse GlimmerMeta 1375.9±16.1 163 1,375 1338.3 No price yet
164 Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514)Anthropic 1375.8±7 164 8,531 1344.8 No price yet
165 Hunyuan T1 (20250711)Tencent 1375.1±17.4 165 1,105 1393.1 No price yet
166 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-ThinkingAlibaba 1374.9±12.3 166 2,155 1343.9 No price yet
167 Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba 1374.7±5.3 167 20,284 1343.1 No price yet
168 Solar Pro 4Upstage 1374.3±7.2 168 8,784 1317.8 No price yet
169 Claude Opus 4 (20250514)Anthropic 1373.3±6.5 169 10,689 1374.6 No price yet
170 MiMo-V2-Flash (Thinking)Xiaomi 1372.9±10.4 170 3,114 1347.8 No price yet
171 o3 (2025-04-16)OpenAI 1367.9±5.5 171 15,500 1358.4 No price yet
172 o1 (2024-12-17)OpenAI 1367.2±6.5 172 10,246 1347.2 No price yet
173 GPT-4.1 (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1366.9±5.7 173 13,300 1363.4 No price yet
174 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17)Google 1366.6±7 174 8,109 1366.9 No price yet
175 Grok 4.3xAI 1365.4±5.2 175 25,122 1379.8 No price yet
176 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (10-20)Amazon 1364.6±10.4 176 3,143 1318.4 No price yet
177 Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (2507)Alibaba 1362.7±7.8 177 5,964 1317 No price yet
178 GPT-5.4 nano (High)OpenAI 1362±5.5 178 21,460 1314.2 No price yet
179 Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking)Alibaba 1361.8±6.8 179 9,221 1356.2 No price yet
180 DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek 1357.3±7.5 180 6,426 1354 No price yet
181 GPT-5 mini (High)OpenAI 1356.7±7.5 181 7,012 1325.1 No price yet
182 Grok 3 Mini (High)xAI 1356.6±9.2 182 4,155 1334.3 No price yet
183 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructAlibaba 1355.5±7.9 183 6,199 1332.9 No price yet
184 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Non-Thinking, 09-2025)Google 1355.4±5.6 184 13,252 1358.3 No price yet
185 GLM-4.5-AirZ.ai 1353.8±6.8 185 8,195 1343 No price yet
186 MiniMax-M2.5MiniMax 1352.8±5.9 186 13,761 1330.6 No price yet
187 Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)Anthropic 1352±6.7 187 9,919 1342 No price yet
188 Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking 32K, 20250219)Anthropic 1351.7±6.4 188 10,123 1331.6 No price yet
189 GLM-4.6VZ.ai 1350.5±21.1 189 753 1347.4 No price yet
190 Kimi K2 Preview (0905)Moonshot AI 1348±11 190 2,883 1349.5 No price yet
191 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12BNVIDIA 1347.1±12.4 191 2,153 1316.8 No price yet
192 Granite 4.2 30BIBM 1346.6±17.9 192 1,171 1287.6 No price yet
193 Grok 3 Mini BetaxAI 1345.9±8.1 193 5,434 1341.5 No price yet
194 DeepSeek-V3 (0324)DeepSeek 1344.5±5.9 194 12,410 1363.9 No price yet
195 Hunyuan TurboS (20250416)Tencent 1343.8±11.8 195 2,423 1358.4 No price yet
196 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-ThinkingAlibaba 1343.2±9.9 196 3,533 1314.1 No price yet
197 o1-previewOpenAI 1341.6±6.9 197 12,782 1317.9 No price yet
198 Mistral Medium 3 (2505)Mistral AI 1338.3±7.1 198 7,948 1343.4 No price yet
199 o3-mini (High)OpenAI 1337.3±7.7 199 6,681 1285.6 No price yet
200 Gemini 2.0 Flash (001)Google 1335.9±5.5 200 13,644 1339.2 No price yet
201 Amazon Nova 2 LiteAmazon 1335.1±10.1 201 3,420 1292.4 No price yet
202 Qwen2.5-MaxAlibaba 1334.7±6 202 10,959 1338.4 No price yet
203 ?Trinity Large Preview 1333.9±6.7 203 9,737 1319.6 No price yet
204 Qwen3-235B-A22BAlibaba 1333±7.7 204 6,185 1316.1 No price yet
205 GPT-4.1 mini (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1332.6±6.5 205 10,006 1299.3 No price yet
206 Step-3StepFun 1332.2±14.4 206 1,638 1321.5 No price yet
207 MiniMax-M2MiniMax 1328.9±12.8 207 2,023 1286.5 No price yet
208 Mercury 2Inception 1327.2±19.1 208 885 1288.8 No price yet
209 GLM-4.7-FlashZ.ai 1326.5±10.1 209 3,305 1296 No price yet
210 ?Trinity Large Thinking 1325.9±6.8 210 10,334 1308.4 No price yet
211 Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219)Anthropic 1324.4±5.9 211 12,307 1316.5 No price yet
212 Kimi K2 Preview (0711)Moonshot AI 1324.3±7.6 212 6,768 1323.5 No price yet
213 Gemma 3 27B ITGoogle 1320.5±5.6 213 12,502 1345.2 No price yet
214 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1320.5±7.9 214 7,636 1262.6 No price yet
215 o4-mini (2025-04-16)OpenAI 1320.3±6 215 11,884 1293.7 No price yet
216 Ling-flash-2.0Ant Group 1318.8±13.4 216 1,839 1287.3 No price yet
217 gpt-oss-120bOpenAI 1318±7 217 7,864 1274.4 No price yet
218 Hunyuan TurboS (20250226)Tencent 1315.6±17.9 218 886 1270.2 No price yet
219 ?INTELLECT-3 1315.5±15.4 219 1,473 1316 No price yet
220 o3-miniOpenAI 1315±5.1 220 16,948 1272.7 No price yet
221 DeepSeek-V3DeepSeek 1315±6.8 221 8,606 1328.8 No price yet
222 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (10-09)Amazon 1314.5±21.3 222 707 1306.3 No price yet
223 Ring-flash-2.0Ant Group 1313.5±13.4 223 1,874 1269.9 No price yet
224 MiniMax-M1MiniMax 1311.8±6.7 224 8,644 1297.5 No price yet
225 GLM-4.5VZ.ai 1310.5±15.8 225 1,294 1294.9 No price yet
226 Step-1o Turbo (202506)StepFun 1309.7±12.8 226 2,094 1307 No price yet
227 Mistral Small 3.2 (2506)Mistral AI 1309±8.9 227 4,381 1304.5 No price yet
228 Command A (03-2025)Cohere 1308.7±5.3 228 15,570 1318.9 No price yet
229 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1NVIDIA 1307.7±21.1 229 660 1314 No price yet
230 GPT-5 nano (High)OpenAI 1306.1±13.1 230 2,024 1249.6 No price yet
231 Qwen3-32BAlibaba 1304.7±18.7 231 858 1297 No price yet
232 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05)Google 1304.6±6.3 232 9,249 1318.7 No price yet
233 o1-miniOpenAI 1303.9±5.3 233 21,478 1244 No price yet
234 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B (BF16)NVIDIA 1303.9±9.1 234 4,376 1269.5 No price yet
235 Qwen-Plus (0125)Alibaba 1302.9±12.1 235 2,249 1292.2 No price yet
236 Granite 4.2 8BIBM 1300.9±18.6 236 1,137 1234.9 No price yet
237 Olmo 3.1 32B InstructAi2 1299.2±10.6 237 3,212 1264.5 No price yet
238 Gemma 3 12B ITGoogle 1299.1±16.1 238 1,145 1331.1 No price yet
239 Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1.5NVIDIA 1298.7±19.8 239 807 1306.5 No price yet
240 QwQ-32BAlibaba 1297±7 240 7,181 1287.4 No price yet
241 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022)Anthropic 1297±4.4 241 31,239 1291.9 No price yet
242 Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)Google 1296.8±5 242 22,789 1332.4 No price yet
243 Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1NVIDIA 1293.3±19.4 243 803 1287.8 No price yet
244 GLM-4-Plus (0111)Z.ai 1292.4±12.4 244 2,160 1310.6 No price yet
245 Step-2 16K Exp (202412)StepFun 1286.7±12.5 245 1,950 1327.4 No price yet
246 Qwen3-30B-A3BAlibaba 1283.3±7.8 246 6,134 1271.1 No price yet
247 DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)DeepSeek 1279.5±11.1 247 2,970 1284.9 No price yet
248 Hunyuan Turbo (0110)Tencent 1278.3±17.9 248 842 1268.7 No price yet
249 ?Yi Lightning 1278.2±6.9 249 10,932 1279.8 No price yet
250 GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI 1277.6±5 250 43,766 1291.2 No price yet
251 Hunyuan Large (2025-02-10)Tencent 1277.1±15.5 251 1,300 1264.1 No price yet
252 Qwen2.5-Plus (1127)Alibaba 1274.5±9 252 4,234 1261.6 No price yet
253 Olmo 3 32B ThinkAi2 1274.2±15.7 253 1,517 1256 No price yet
254 Granite 4.2 3BIBM 1273.7±19.6 254 1,097 1207 No price yet
255 ?Athene V2 Chat 1270.5±6.3 255 10,236 1234.1 No price yet
256 Molmo 2 8BAi2 1270.2±37.1 256 220 – No price yet
257 Grok 2 (2024-08-13)xAI 1269.8±5 257 25,659 1284 No price yet
258 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620)Anthropic 1269.5±5.1 258 32,074 1237.9 No price yet
259 Granite 4.1 8BIBM 1268.1±17.1 259 1,447 1250.4 No price yet
260 Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E InstructMeta 1266.9±6.5 260 10,498 1266.1 No price yet
261 GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI 1266.6±5.8 261 18,305 1274.3 No price yet
262 GPT-4.1 nano (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1266.4±12.4 262 2,015 1259.8 No price yet
263 GLM-4-PlusZ.ai 1264.2±6.9 263 10,743 1263.4 No price yet
264 Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct (2503)Mistral AI 1263.3±7.1 264 8,046 1252.1 No price yet
265 Qwen-Max (0919)Alibaba 1261.7±7.9 265 6,919 1247.9 No price yet
266 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct (BF16)Meta 1258.5±5.2 266 16,174 1259.5 No price yet
267 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct (FP8)Meta 1258.5±5.3 267 23,585 1261.7 No price yet
268 GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI 1258.3±4.8 268 26,707 1267.5 No price yet
269 Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)Google 1257.4±5.9 269 14,561 1285.2 No price yet
270 Gemma 3n E4B ITGoogle 1255.1±8.6 270 4,974 1286.9 No price yet
271 Qwen2.5-72B-InstructAlibaba 1254±5.6 271 16,363 1221 No price yet
272 Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)Google 1253.6±5.8 272 29,835 1272.2 No price yet
273 Magistral Medium (2506)Mistral AI 1253.5±10.9 273 3,115 1245.1 No price yet
274 Gemini Advanced (0514)Google 1253.4±6.7 274 18,524 1283.9 No price yet
275 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNVIDIA 1251.7±10.8 275 2,959 1268.3 No price yet
276 Hunyuan Large VisionTencent 1250.1±16.8 276 1,212 1247.6 No price yet
277 GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)OpenAI 1249.3±5.5 277 36,297 1268.2 No price yet
278 DeepSeek-V2.5DeepSeek 1249.1±6.7 278 10,175 1236.5 No price yet
279 Mistral Large (2411)Mistral AI 1248.7±6 279 10,971 1241.6 No price yet
280 Claude 3 Opus (20240229)Anthropic 1248.2±4.5 280 72,001 1234.6 No price yet
281 Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E InstructMeta 1247.7±7.3 281 7,480 1248.7 No price yet
282 Mistral Large 2 (2407)Mistral AI 1247.7±5.6 282 18,321 1242.6 No price yet
283 Olmo 3.1 32B ThinkAi2 1246.1±13.1 283 2,185 1226.6 No price yet
284 Hunyuan Standard (2025-02-10)Tencent 1244.8±15.1 284 1,329 1241.9 No price yet
285 Grok 2 mini (2024-08-13)xAI 1244.6±5.3 285 21,131 1241.3 No price yet
286 Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta 1241.7±5 286 18,782 1250.2 No price yet
287 Claude 3.5 Haiku (20241022)Anthropic 1240.6±4.6 287 21,924 1232.3 No price yet
288 GPT-4 Turbo Preview (1106)OpenAI 1240.5±5.6 288 34,416 1244 No price yet
289 MercuryInception 1239.9±25 289 589 1189 No price yet
290 Gemma 3 4B ITGoogle 1238.9±16.2 290 1,233 1270.2 No price yet
291 gpt-oss-20bOpenAI 1236.2±12.2 291 2,541 1201 No price yet
292 Amazon Nova Pro 1.0Amazon 1235.2±6.3 292 9,525 1212.1 No price yet
293 GPT-4 Turbo Preview (0125)OpenAI 1234.9±5.7 293 33,252 1232.2 No price yet
294 Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 70BAi2 1232.5±15.4 294 1,170 1231 No price yet
295 Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta 1231.1±5.3 295 21,910 1231.6 No price yet
296 ?Athene 70B (0725) 1226.7±7.7 296 7,490 1238.1 No price yet
297 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-InstructAlibaba 1222.7±11.8 297 2,227 1173.7 No price yet
298 Granite-4.0-H-SmallIBM 1222.6±15.2 298 1,605 1209.5 No price yet
299 Mistral Small 24B Instruct (2501)Mistral AI 1213.9±8.1 299 5,485 1194.4 No price yet
300 ?Jamba 1.5 Large 1212.5±10.6 300 3,266 1211.5 No price yet
301 Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)Google 1211.8±5.9 301 23,685 1221.9 No price yet
302 ?Reka Core (20240904) 1211.8±10.1 302 3,118 1236 No price yet
303 Gemma 2 27B ITGoogle 1205.9±4.7 303 29,545 1240.4 No price yet
304 Amazon Nova Lite 1.0Amazon 1204.9±7.1 304 7,809 1196.6 No price yet
305 Nemotron-4 340B InstructNVIDIA 1203±8.1 305 7,354 1202.3 No price yet
306 GLM-4 (0520)Z.ai 1202.7±10.2 306 3,766 1197.7 No price yet
307 Hunyuan Standard 256KTencent 1201.7±16.8 307 1,098 1164.8 No price yet
308 Phi-4Microsoft 1201.1±6.6 308 9,162 1181.3 No price yet
309 GPT-4 (0314)OpenAI 1200.9±7.2 309 18,087 1190 No price yet
310 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51B InstructNVIDIA 1200.6±14.5 310 1,484 1213 No price yet
311 Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229)Anthropic 1199.3±5.6 311 38,802 1185.9 No price yet
312 Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001)Google 1199±5.9 312 14,894 1217.3 No price yet
313 Command R+ (08-2024)Cohere 1196.6±9.3 313 4,024 1234.4 No price yet
314 Aya Expanse 32BCohere 1195.9±6.7 314 11,265 1199.5 No price yet
315 Llama 3 70B InstructMeta 1194.1±5.3 315 56,558 1209.5 No price yet
316 ?Gemma 2 9B IT SimPO 1191±9.9 316 3,741 1238.5 No price yet
317 GPT-4 (0613)OpenAI 1188.5±6 317 29,706 1191.2 No price yet
318 OLMo 2 32B Instruct (0325)Ai2 1185.9±17.2 318 1,063 1198.3 No price yet
319 ?Reka Flash (20240904) 1185.2±10 319 3,246 1202 No price yet
320 Qwen2-72B-InstructAlibaba 1181.1±6.8 320 14,194 1180.7 No price yet
321 DeepSeek-Coder-V2DeepSeek 1180.2±9.1 321 5,614 1120 No price yet
322 Command R+Cohere 1179.6±6 322 28,069 1200.7 No price yet
323 Gemma 2 9B ITGoogle 1178.1±5.3 323 21,359 1205.3 No price yet
324 Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8BAi2 1174.1±15.4 324 1,172 1181.2 No price yet
325 Amazon Nova Micro 1.0Amazon 1174.1±7.1 325 7,716 1171.5 No price yet
326 Claude 3 Haiku (20240307)Anthropic 1173.2±5.3 326 43,031 1157.1 No price yet
327 Mistral Large (2402)Mistral AI 1169.1±6.6 327 21,532 1160.8 No price yet
328 Command R (08-2024)Cohere 1167±9.1 328 4,153 1169.7 No price yet
329 Ministral 8B (2410)Mistral AI 1160.5±12.7 329 1,946 1174.5 No price yet
330 Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta 1158.9±5.5 330 19,781 1154.1 No price yet
331 Qwen1.5-110B-ChatAlibaba 1157.7±8 331 9,518 1147.7 No price yet
332 QwQ-32B-PreviewAlibaba 1155.8±15.8 332 1,329 1133.5 No price yet
333 Aya Expanse 8BCohere 1154.8±9.5 333 4,006 1167.8 No price yet
334 Mistral MediumMistral AI 1151.7±8.1 334 11,466 1157.5 No price yet
335 ?Jamba 1.5 Mini 1147.9±10.5 335 3,254 1164.1 No price yet
336 Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI 1147±6.5 336 18,515 1141.1 No price yet
337 Qwen1.5-72B-ChatAlibaba 1141.3±7.3 337 13,814 1136.8 No price yet
338 ?Yi 1.5 34B Chat 1139.1±7.6 338 8,996 1134.9 No price yet
339 ?InternLM2.5 20B Chat 1135±10 339 4,092 1122.5 No price yet
340 Granite 3.1 8B InstructIBM 1130.7±16.2 340 1,258 1128.6 No price yet
341 ?Reka Flash 21B (Online, 20240226) 1129.3±10.2 341 5,558 1130.3 No price yet
342 Llama 3 8B InstructMeta 1127.1±5.6 342 37,733 1149.6 No price yet
343 Command RCohere 1124.6±6.7 343 19,085 1154.1 No price yet
344 ?Reka Flash 21B (20240226) 1121.3±8.4 344 9,018 1123.6 No price yet
345 GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125)OpenAI 1118.5±6.3 345 23,523 1092.1 No price yet
346 ?Zephyr ORPO 141B A35B v0.1 1117.6±15.4 346 1,593 1112.9 No price yet
347 Gemma 2 2B ITGoogle 1117.5±5.6 347 18,240 1146.5 No price yet
348 Granite 3.1 2B InstructIBM 1115.9±16.2 348 1,252 1115.7 No price yet
349 Qwen1.5-32B-ChatAlibaba 1115.5±8.5 349 7,653 1082.7 No price yet
350 Gemini Pro (Dev API)Google 1114±10.5 350 5,876 1130.2 No price yet
351 Phi-3 Medium 4K InstructMicrosoft 1113.3±7.3 351 9,385 1106.2 No price yet
352 ?DBRX Instruct Preview 1111.5±8.4 352 11,274 1104 No price yet
353 ?Tulu 2 DPO 70B 1110.3±14.5 353 2,008 1104.7 No price yet
354 Gemini ProGoogle 1109.9±16.3 354 1,897 1103.6 No price yet
355 Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI 1109.3±6.3 355 24,974 1108.5 No price yet
356 Qwen1.5-14B-ChatAlibaba 1101.6±9.9 356 6,231 1090.3 No price yet
357 ?Starling LM 7B Beta 1095.7±10 357 5,765 1095.4 No price yet
358 WizardLM 70BMicrosoft 1093±13.3 358 2,680 1148.9 No price yet
359 GPT-3.5 Turbo (1106)OpenAI 1092.6±12.1 359 5,238 1034.8 No price yet
360 ?Yi 34B Chat 1090.8±9.7 360 5,099 1107.8 No price yet
361 Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta 1088.8±10.7 361 3,171 1093.9 No price yet
362 Granite 3.0 8B InstructIBM 1087.9±12.1 362 2,597 1070.4 No price yet
363 Phi-3 Small 8K InstructMicrosoft 1086.5±8.6 363 6,632 1082.6 No price yet
364 DeepSeek LLM 67B ChatDeepSeek 1079±16.8 364 1,525 1067.2 No price yet
365 ?OpenChat 3.5 (0106) 1076.4±10.4 365 4,414 1092.2 No price yet
366 Llama 2 70B ChatMeta 1070.8±7.6 366 12,635 1074.6 No price yet
367 ?OpenHermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 1070.1±15.2 367 1,577 1096.9 No price yet
368 ?OpenChat 3.5 1070.1±13.9 368 2,391 1125.3 No price yet
369 ?Starling LM 7B Alpha 1069.8±11.3 369 3,316 1098.9 No price yet
370 ?Snowflake Arctic Instruct 1066±8.4 370 11,736 1080.7 No price yet
371 ?Vicuna 33B 1064.9±8.9 371 6,983 1124.4 No price yet
372 Llama 2 70B SteerLM ChatNVIDIA 1060.3±17.9 372 1,076 1090.3 No price yet
373 Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2Mistral AI 1059.9±8.9 373 6,659 1067.4 No price yet
374 Qwen1.5-7B-ChatAlibaba 1058.2±13.9 374 1,715 1034.3 No price yet
375 Phi-3 Mini 4K Instruct (June 2024)Microsoft 1057.7±9.6 375 4,431 1044.4 No price yet
376 Gemma 1.1 7B ITGoogle 1056.8±7.9 376 8,852 1059.2 No price yet
377 ?Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO 1055.9±16.1 377 1,421 1101.4 No price yet
378 Granite 3.0 2B InstructIBM 1055.6±12.2 378 2,698 1046 No price yet
379 ?MPT 30B Chat 1053.9±21.3 379 718 1073.8 No price yet
380 ?Dolphin 2.2.1 Mistral 7B 1053.3±24.3 380 497 1085.5 No price yet
381 Phi-3 Mini 4K InstructMicrosoft 1053.2±8.7 381 7,636 1036.7 No price yet
382 WizardLM 13BMicrosoft 1048.3±13.8 382 2,003 1090.2 No price yet
383 ?Falcon 180B Chat 1046.5±28 383 389 1088.3 No price yet
384 SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0Upstage 1046.4±18.1 384 1,188 1089.1 No price yet
385 Llama 2 13B ChatMeta 1045.2±9.3 385 6,097 1046.6 No price yet
386 ?Vicuna 13B 1035±9.5 386 5,665 1057.9 No price yet
387 ?Zephyr 7B Alpha 1034.3±24.3 387 534 1068.5 No price yet
388 ?Zephyr 7B Beta 1031.4±12.6 388 3,094 1102.1 No price yet
389 Qwen-14B-ChatAlibaba 1031.2±16.4 389 1,470 1027.4 No price yet
390 Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta 1031±11.1 390 3,248 1032.5 No price yet
391 ?SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct 1029.1±21 391 859 1031.2 No price yet
392 Code Llama 34B InstructMeta 1027.8±12.8 392 2,294 1031.4 No price yet
393 Code Llama 70B InstructMeta 1023.6±29.6 393 358 – No price yet
394 Phi-3 Mini 128K InstructMicrosoft 1022.7±10.1 394 7,368 1024 No price yet
395 Gemma 7B ITGoogle 1016.9±12.7 395 2,835 1023.3 No price yet
396 ?StripedHyena Nous 7B 1010.2±15.1 396 1,660 1029 No price yet
397 PaLM 2Google 1010±13.3 397 2,536 991.2 No price yet
398 Llama 2 7B ChatMeta 1005.8±9.8 398 4,541 1033 No price yet
399 Mistral 7B InstructMistral AI 1003.2±13.5 399 2,768 1028.1 No price yet
400 ?Vicuna 7B 993.7±13.9 400 2,020 1020.8 No price yet
401 Gemma 1.1 2B ITGoogle 991.7±10.9 401 3,877 997.7 No price yet
402 ?Guanaco 33B 991.2±20.7 402 777 1079.7 No price yet
403 Qwen1.5-4B-ChatAlibaba 978.4±12.8 403 2,636 969 No price yet
404 OLMo 7B InstructAi2 978.2±15.7 404 1,908 989.5 No price yet
405 Gemma 2B ITGoogle 970.3±16 405 1,522 986.2 No price yet
406 ?ChatGLM3 6B 953.9±17.6 406 1,321 969.8 No price yet
407 ?GPT4All 13B Snoozy 945.4±24.6 407 483 971.8 No price yet
408 ?Koala 13B 943.6±14.9 408 1,913 972.7 No price yet
409 ?MPT 7B Chat 906.7±18.1 409 1,115 957.4 No price yet
410 ?ChatGLM2 6B 902±22.3 410 762 940.9 No price yet
411 ?ChatGLM 6B 901.8±17.4 411 1,277 899.8 No price yet
412 ?Alpaca 13B 891.1±16.1 412 1,512 967.3 No price yet
413 ?OpenAssistant Pythia 12B 887.3±15.5 413 1,744 923.1 No price yet
414 ?RWKV-4 Raven 14B 882.5±16.5 414 1,375 933.5 No price yet
415 ?FastChat-T5 3B 858±18.2 415 1,134 901.9 No price yet
416 ?StableLM Tuned Alpha 7B 830.9±19.8 416 814 867.6 No price yet
417 ?Dolly 2.0 12B 813.6±20.7 417 899 863.5 No price yet
418 LLaMA 13BMeta 780.8±24.1 418 584 793.7 No price yet

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Data: LMArena (lmarena-ai), CC-BY-4.0 · Instruction following · 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).

Which LLM follows instructions best?

On LMArena's Instruction following category (published Oct 22, 2026, 418 models), the top three are Claude Opus 5.5 (High) (1538.8), Gemini 4 Argon (High) (1527.6), Claude Opus 4.6 (High) (1521).

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.