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 Writing & literatureData Oct 22, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Anthropic · 1532.1

Claude vs Gemini: which is better for writing?

ModelScoreRankCreative writingInput / outputScore per $
Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Top Claude1532.1±11.911534.2 #1$4 / $20192
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Cheapest Claude in top 201475.7±12.5181468.3 #18$2 / $10369
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Top Gemini1524.4±11.921523.1 #2$2 / $10381
Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Cheapest Gemini in top 201491.5±7.5121489.1 #9$0.75 / $3.75994

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 · Writing & literature

417 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 1532.1±11.9 1 3,104 1534.2 $4 / $20 $8 192
2 Gemini 4 Argon (High)Google 1524.4±11.9 2 2,914 1523.1 $2 / $10 $4 381
3 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)Anthropic 1511.9±9.6 3 4,724 1509.7 $10 / $50 $20 76
4 Claude Opus 4.6 (High)Anthropic 1501.7±5.3 4 21,687 1504.8 $5 / $25 $10 150
5 Claude Fable 5 (High)Anthropic 1501.1±6.4 5 12,474 1493.4 $10 / $50 $20 75
6 Claude Opus 5 (Max)Anthropic 1499.3±7.1 6 10,036 1494.6 $5 / $25 $10 150
7 Muse Wonder (Max)Meta 1497.2±14.8 7 1,771 1492.6 $4 / $20 $8 187
8 Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)Google 1494±6.8 8 12,513 1489.4 $0.825 / $4.125 $1.65 906
9 Claude Opus 5 (High)Anthropic 1492.6±5.9 9 20,320 1486.5 No price yet
10 Claude Opus 4.7 (High)Anthropic 1492.5±6 10 16,578 1486.2 $5 / $25 $10 149
11 Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic 1492.1±5.2 11 22,072 1483.7 No price yet
12 Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Google 1491.5±7.5 12 8,550 1489.1 $0.75 / $3.75 $1.5 994
13 Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle 1480.9±4.6 13 33,586 1481.8 $2 / $12 $4.5 329
14 Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic 1479.1±6 14 16,995 1479.7 No price yet
15 Gemini 3 ProGoogle 1478.1±6.9 15 9,574 1482.5 $2 / $12 $4.5 329
16 Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)Google 1477.4±6.3 16 12,677 1467.6 $1.5 / $9 $3.375 438
17 Qwen3.8-MaxAlibaba 1476.8±7.5 17 8,031 1477.4 $2 / $6 $3 492
18 Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)Anthropic 1475.7±12.5 18 2,568 1468.3 $2 / $10 $4 369
19 Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)Google 1472.6±6.4 19 12,816 1470.1 No price yet
20 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)Meta 1470.3±8.6 20 5,839 1462.4 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 735
21 Kimi K3 (Max)Moonshot AI 1469.9±7.1 21 9,511 1456.2 $0.202 / $20 $5.152 285
22 Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)Google 1469.9±7 22 9,856 1466.1 $0.75 / $3.75 $1.5 980
23 MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi 1469.7±18.5 23 1,001 1466.4 $0.435 / $0.87 $0.544 2,703
24 GLM-5.3 (Max)Z.ai 1469±7.9 24 7,239 1459.2 $0.07 / $1.4 $0.402 3,651
25 Qwen3.5-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1466.4±8.6 25 5,175 1464.2 No price yet
26 GPT-5.5 (High)OpenAI 1466.3±5.8 26 18,172 1455.3 $5 / $30 $11.25 130
27 GPT-5.5OpenAI 1463.9±5.8 27 18,549 1452.3 No price yet
28 GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh)OpenAI 1462.8±6.7 28 11,702 1450.2 $4 / $20 $8 183
29 GLM-5.2 (Max)Z.ai 1462.6±6.1 29 14,034 1461.6 $0.034 / $7 $1.776 824
30 Qwen3.7-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1461.6±20 30 908 1447.7 $1.475 / $4.425 $2.213 661
31 Claude Opus 4.8 (High)Anthropic 1461.5±5.8 31 17,297 1454.4 $5 / $25 $10 146
32 Gemini 3 FlashGoogle 1459.1±7.8 32 7,061 1456.8 $0.5 / $3 $1.125 1,297
33 GPT-5.4 (High)OpenAI 1458.4±5.9 33 16,347 1439 $2.5 / $15 $5.625 259
34 GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai 1455.1±6.9 34 10,617 1440.8 $0.15 / $0.5 $0.238 6,127
35 GLM-5.1Z.ai 1454.6±5.5 35 17,329 1452.6 $1.4 / $4.4 $2.15 677
36 Muse SparkMeta 1454.1±10.7 36 3,300 1458.7 No price yet
37 Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle 1453.9±4.2 37 28,259 1453.7 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 423
38 Muse Spark 1.2 (xHigh)Meta 1453.8±11.7 38 2,949 1434.7 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 727
39 Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic 1452.7±5.8 39 17,408 1446.4 No price yet
40 Claude Opus 4.5 (20251101)Anthropic 1451.6±5.4 40 16,904 1443 $5 / $25 $10 145
41 MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi 1451±5.4 41 20,206 1438 $0.305 / $0.609 $0.381 3,812
42 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max)DeepSeek 1450.9±10.4 42 3,655 1438.5 $0.02 / $1 $0.265 5,475
43 ERNIE 5.1Baidu 1449.2±7.2 43 9,644 1440.9 No price yet
44 GPT-5.4OpenAI 1448.7±5.9 44 16,734 1427.7 No price yet
45 Muse Spark 1.1Meta 1447.2±6.4 45 12,793 1434.6 $1.25 / $4.25 $2 724
46 DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek 1447.1±6.3 46 14,141 1446.2 $0.435 / $0.87 $0.544 2,661
47 Grok 4.5xAI 1444.9±6.7 47 10,889 1441.8 $2 / $6 $3 482
48 Claude Opus 4.5 (High, 32K, 20251101)Anthropic 1444.8±7 48 8,582 1444.8 No price yet
49 Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic 1443.9±5.7 49 17,600 1435.4 $3 / $15 $6 241
50 Qwen3.6-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1443.7±17.6 50 1,188 1435.3 No price yet
51 DeepSeek-V4-Pro (High, 20260813)DeepSeek 1442.7±11.9 51 2,630 1438.6 $0.955 / $1.911 $1.194 1,208
52 GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)OpenAI 1442.4±13 52 2,390 1424.4 $2 / $10 $4 361
53 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (20250929)Anthropic 1441.8±5 53 19,003 1441.6 No price yet
54 GPT-6 Astra (Max)OpenAI 1439.6±10.1 54 3,970 1420.5 $10 / $50 $20 72
55 Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI 1439±7 55 9,594 1433.6 $0.65 / $3.41 $1.34 1,074
56 DeepSeek-V4-Pro Preview (High)DeepSeek 1437.6±6.3 56 13,741 1440.8 No price yet
57 Qwen3.7-PlusAlibaba 1437.6±6.6 57 10,845 1438 $0.32 / $1.28 $0.56 2,567
58 GLM-5Z.ai 1436.4±7.4 58 7,025 1437.9 $1 / $3.2 $1.55 927
59 Gemini 3 Flash (Minimal)Google 1436.2±5 59 22,034 1435.2 No price yet
60 Claude Sonnet 5 (High)Anthropic 1435.9±6.1 60 14,193 1416 $2 / $10 $4 359
61 Grok 4.20 Beta (Reasoning, 0309)xAI 1433.7±5.9 61 16,604 1432 No price yet
62 GPT-5.6 Terra (xHigh)OpenAI 1431.8±6.4 62 12,984 1413 $2 / $12 $4.5 318
63 Claude Sonnet 4.5 (High, 32K, 20250929)Anthropic 1431.8±4.9 63 19,375 1424.6 No price yet
64 Gemma 4 31BGoogle 1431.3±15.3 64 1,425 1416 No price yet
65 Grok 4.6 (High)xAI 1431.2±7.2 65 9,217 1427.9 $2 / $6 $3 477
66 Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta (0309)xAI 1430.7±5.9 66 16,162 1436.2 No price yet
67 Step 5 PreviewStepFun 1429.4±12 67 2,685 1411.4 $1 / $2.7 $1.425 1,003
68 GPT-5.1 (High)OpenAI 1427.8±6.8 68 9,358 1427.1 $1.25 / $10 $3.438 415
69 Grok 4.20 Beta 1xAI 1427.6±7.9 69 6,399 1438.4 No price yet
70 Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle 1427.5±7.1 70 9,768 1420.6 No price yet
71 Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)Moonshot AI 1425.2±5.3 71 17,928 1422.1 $0.5 / $2.5 $1 1,425
72 MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi 1424.6±10.5 72 3,607 1404.3 $0.14 / $0.28 $0.175 8,141
73 MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi 1424.1±8.1 73 5,907 1415.3 No price yet
74 GPT-5.2 Chat (20260210)OpenAI 1422±6.9 74 8,490 1401 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 296
75 ERNIE 5.0 (0110)Baidu 1421.5±6.8 75 8,358 1426.2 No price yet
76 GPT-5.5 InstantOpenAI 1421.5±8 76 6,687 1418.2 No price yet
77 GLM-5V-TurboZ.ai 1420.7±11.8 77 2,756 1417.7 No price yet
78 GPT-5.6 Luna (xHigh)OpenAI 1418.9±6.6 78 11,392 1395.9 $0.2 / $1.2 $0.45 3,153
79 Qwen3.6-PlusAlibaba 1418±6.7 79 11,240 1403.7 No price yet
80 Claude Opus 4.1 (20250805)Anthropic 1418±5.2 80 17,467 1410.4 No price yet
81 Claude Opus 4.1 (Thinking 16K, 20250805)Anthropic 1417.9±6.2 81 11,053 1412 No price yet
82 MiniMax-M3MiniMax 1417.7±5.7 82 17,167 1402.7 $0.3 / $1.2 $0.525 2,700
83 Qwen3.5-397B-A17BAlibaba 1415.8±4.8 83 23,873 1402.5 No price yet
84 GLM-4.6Z.ai 1415.7±6.9 84 8,093 1411.7 $0.55 / $2.2 $0.963 1,471
85 Hy3Tencent 1415.2±10.3 85 3,537 1404.8 $0.132 / $0.528 $0.231 6,126
86 ChatGPT-4o Latest (20250326)OpenAI 1414.6±4.8 86 18,580 1405 No price yet
87 ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1203)Baidu 1414.3±12.4 87 2,215 1422.2 No price yet
88 GPT-5.1OpenAI 1411.7±6.5 88 10,129 1403.5 No price yet
89 GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27)OpenAI 1411.6±9.7 89 4,092 1393.6 No price yet
90 GLM-4.7Z.ai 1411±11 90 2,828 1401.3 No price yet
91 Grok 3 Preview (02-24)xAI 1410.9±7.2 91 7,745 1413.9 No price yet
92 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)DeepSeek 1409.9±21.2 92 758 1390.8 No price yet
93 DeepSeek-V4-FlashDeepSeek 1409.9±6.5 93 12,606 1402.9 $0.091 / $0.182 $0.114 12,389
94 Dola Seed 2.0 ProByteDance 1409.6±5.4 94 19,095 1406.2 No price yet
95 MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi 1409.1±6.8 95 11,544 1392.5 $0.119 / $0.238 $0.149 9,470
96 ERNIE-5.0-Preview (1022)Baidu 1409±17.1 96 1,140 1416.3 No price yet
97 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Preview (High)DeepSeek 1408.7±6.5 97 12,783 1398.7 No price yet
98 DeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusDeepSeek 1408.4±20.7 98 790 1403.4 No price yet
99 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite PreviewGoogle 1408.1±5.8 99 15,604 1401 No price yet
100 DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpDeepSeek 1407.4±11.4 100 2,663 1403.2 No price yet
101 Grok 4.1xAI 1407.2±5.5 101 15,350 1411 No price yet
102 Qwen3-Max-PreviewAlibaba 1407±7.8 102 6,186 1401.1 No price yet
103 DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek 1406.9±6.3 103 10,688 1399.4 $0.28 / $0.42 $0.315 4,466
104 Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle 1405.4±15.2 104 1,396 1401.2 No price yet
105 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1405.4±11.3 105 3,058 1398.3 No price yet
106 Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle 1405.3±4.1 106 28,421 1399.9 No price yet
107 Qwen3.8-27BAlibaba 1405.3±8 107 6,940 1382.9 $0.2 / $2.5 $0.775 1,813
108 TInklingThinking Machines 1405±6.6 108 12,055 1389.9 No price yet
109 DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)DeepSeek 1404.4±11.4 109 2,720 1400.9 No price yet
110 Grok 4.1 (Thinking)xAI 1404.2±5.5 110 15,299 1403.5 No price yet
111 GLM-4.5Z.ai 1402.8±8.4 111 5,298 1395.1 No price yet
112 DeepSeek-R1 (0528)DeepSeek 1401.3±9.5 112 4,203 1405.3 No price yet
113 RBeam 1.0 501B A23BReflection AI 1401±16.8 113 1,303 1391 No price yet
114 Grok 4 (0709)xAI 1399.1±6.7 114 8,986 1396.6 No price yet
115 DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)DeepSeek 1398.5±6.4 115 9,738 1389.3 No price yet
116 Mistral Large 3Mistral AI 1397.6±4.7 116 21,839 1386.7 No price yet
117 Kimi K2.5 (Instant)Moonshot AI 1397.4±13.1 117 1,945 1382.4 No price yet
118 DeepSeek-V3.1DeepSeek 1397.3±10.2 118 3,418 1387.7 No price yet
119 MiMo-V2-OmniXiaomi 1396.4±9 119 5,156 1392.2 No price yet
120 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp (Thinking)DeepSeek 1396.2±12.9 120 2,097 1388 No price yet
121 Mistral Medium 3.1 (2508)Mistral AI 1395.3±4.5 121 21,938 1390.7 No price yet
122 Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (09-2025)Google 1395.1±7.3 122 7,371 1386.4 No price yet
123 Grok 4.7 (xHigh)xAI 1393.8±10.1 123 4,137 1381.2 $2 / $6 $3 465
124 GPT-5.4 mini (High)OpenAI 1392.9±6 124 15,854 1370.2 No price yet
125 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-InstructAlibaba 1392.7±12.9 125 2,350 1366 No price yet
126 GPT-5.2 (High)OpenAI 1392±6.1 126 11,510 1376.1 $1.75 / $14 $4.813 289
127 Claude Opus 4 (Thinking 16K, 20250514)Anthropic 1391.6±7.3 127 7,827 1385.9 No price yet
128 GPT-5.2OpenAI 1391.5±5.2 128 20,439 1375.7 No price yet
129 Grok 4 Fast (Non-Reasoning)xAI 1390.9±15.4 129 1,462 1386.3 No price yet
130 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (26-02-10)Amazon 1390.7±20.4 130 721 1368.8 No price yet
131 Qwen3-Max (2025-09-23)Alibaba 1390.1±12.9 131 1,977 1380.6 No price yet
132 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct (2507)Alibaba 1390±4.4 132 22,136 1374.7 No price yet
133 GPT-6 Sol (Max)OpenAI 1388.8±10.2 133 4,037 1377.4 $2 / $10 $4 347
134 LongCat-Flash-Chat Exp (2602)Meituan 1388.4±7.6 134 6,841 1388 No price yet
135 Hunyuan Vision 1.5 ThinkingTencent 1387.8±25.8 135 487 1389.4 No price yet
136 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking (2507)Alibaba 1387.6±13.5 136 1,859 1383.6 No price yet
137 Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba 1387.5±7.5 137 6,798 1368.1 No price yet
138 Mistral Large 4Mistral AI 1387.4±11.3 138 3,001 1363.8 $1.36 / $4.18 $2.065 672
139 Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning)xAI 1387.2±5.7 139 13,409 1394.4 No price yet
140 Claude Haiku 4.5 (20251001)Anthropic 1386.4±4 140 37,359 1370.8 No price yet
141 Hunyuan T1 (20250711)Tencent 1385.3±18.2 141 1,010 1393.1 No price yet
142 Grok 4.3xAI 1384.7±5.7 142 18,664 1379.8 No price yet
143 GPT-5 ChatOpenAI 1384.1±7.5 143 6,774 1364.7 No price yet
144 Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI 1383.9±11.2 144 2,993 1373.9 $1.5 / $7.5 $3 461
145 MiMo-V2-Flash (Non-Thinking)Xiaomi 1383.8±6.1 145 10,924 1376.1 No price yet
146 GPT-6 Luna (Max)OpenAI 1382.8±5.9 146 20,966 1362.7 $0.1 / $0.5 $0.2 6,914
147 Claude Opus 4 (20250514)Anthropic 1381.4±6.9 147 9,299 1374.6 No price yet
148 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (12-10)Amazon 1380.8±19.3 148 863 1350.4 No price yet
149 Grok 4 Fast (Reasoning)xAI 1380.7±9.2 149 4,157 1378 No price yet
150 Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba 1380.7±7.7 150 6,494 1362.6 No price yet
151 Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMoonshot AI 1380.5±5.5 151 14,645 1373.4 No price yet
152 GPT-5 (High)OpenAI 1379±7.5 152 7,039 1364.2 No price yet
153 GPT-5.3 ChatOpenAI 1377.8±7.2 153 7,973 1355.2 No price yet
154 MiniMax-M2.7MiniMax 1376.3±5.2 154 21,451 1354.2 No price yet
155 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17)Google 1374.9±7.4 155 7,064 1366.9 No price yet
156 MiniMax-M2.1 PreviewMiniMax 1373±9.3 156 4,039 1362.3 No price yet
157 Step-3.5-FlashStepFun 1371.8±5.7 157 14,809 1357.2 No price yet
158 o3 (2025-04-16)OpenAI 1371.5±5.9 158 13,235 1358.4 No price yet
159 GPT-4.1 (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1371.2±6.2 159 11,338 1363.4 No price yet
160 Hy3 previewTencent 1370.6±15.2 160 1,598 1340.2 No price yet
161 Claude Haiku 5.5 (High)Anthropic 1370.1±14.6 161 1,789 1335.6 $0.1 / $0.5 $0.2 6,851
162 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (11-10)Amazon 1369.9±7.8 162 5,868 1349.3 No price yet
163 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1369.4±17.9 163 1,180 1375.5 No price yet
164 Qwen3.5-FlashAlibaba 1368.9±5.9 164 14,648 1343.1 No price yet
165 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Non-Thinking, 09-2025)Google 1368.6±6.2 165 10,632 1358.3 No price yet
166 LongCat-Flash-ChatMeituan 1368.1±11.8 166 2,465 1346.4 No price yet
167 Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking)Alibaba 1366.4±7.1 167 8,003 1356.2 No price yet
168 Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba 1365.3±7.4 168 7,046 1347.4 No price yet
169 DeepSeek-V3 (0324)DeepSeek 1364.7±6.4 169 10,282 1363.9 No price yet
170 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-ThinkingAlibaba 1364.6±14 170 1,751 1343.9 No price yet
171 DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek 1364.3±8.1 171 5,355 1354 No price yet
172 MiMo-V2-Flash (Thinking)Xiaomi 1363.1±11.6 172 2,506 1347.8 No price yet
173 o1 (2024-12-17)OpenAI 1360±7.3 173 7,663 1347.2 No price yet
174 TInkling-SmallThinking Machines 1357.4±7.1 174 9,999 1334.3 No price yet
175 Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514)Anthropic 1356.6±7.4 175 7,377 1344.8 No price yet
176 Muse GlimmerMeta 1356±19.4 176 984 1338.3 No price yet
177 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-InstructAlibaba 1354.8±8.4 177 5,066 1333.3 No price yet
178 GLM-4.5-AirZ.ai 1354±7.3 178 6,981 1343 No price yet
179 Mistral Medium 3 (2505)Mistral AI 1351.7±7.5 179 7,173 1343.4 No price yet
180 Hunyuan TurboS (20250416)Tencent 1351.1±11.7 180 2,524 1358.4 No price yet
181 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (10-20)Amazon 1350.7±11.6 181 2,566 1318.4 No price yet
182 Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)Anthropic 1350.6±7.1 182 8,506 1342 No price yet
183 GLM-4.6VZ.ai 1347.2±23.2 183 623 1347.4 No price yet
184 Gemma 3 27B ITGoogle 1347.1±6.1 184 10,582 1345.2 No price yet
185 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (26-01-10)Amazon 1347±20.3 185 797 1329.6 No price yet
186 Gemini 2.0 Flash (001)Google 1346.9±6.1 186 10,537 1339.2 No price yet
187 Grok 3 Mini (High)xAI 1346±10.1 187 3,417 1334.3 No price yet
188 Qwen2.5-MaxAlibaba 1346±6.8 188 8,191 1338.4 No price yet
189 Kimi K2 Preview (0905)Moonshot AI 1345.9±11.7 189 2,573 1349.5 No price yet
190 MiniMax-M2.5MiniMax 1345.4±6.5 190 10,076 1330.6 No price yet
191 Grok 3 Mini BetaxAI 1344.9±8.8 191 4,562 1341.5 No price yet
192 GPT-5 mini (High)OpenAI 1344.3±7.9 192 6,139 1325.1 No price yet
193 Solar Pro 4Upstage 1344±8.2 193 6,840 1317.8 No price yet
194 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructAlibaba 1339.7±8.5 194 5,329 1332.9 No price yet
195 o1-previewOpenAI 1339.5±8 195 8,360 1317.9 No price yet
196 Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking 32K, 20250219)Anthropic 1337.7±6.9 196 8,764 1331.6 No price yet
197 GPT-5.4 nano (High)OpenAI 1337.5±6.1 197 15,386 1314.2 No price yet
198 Qwen3-235B-A22BAlibaba 1336.1±7.8 198 6,140 1316.1 No price yet
199 Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (2507)Alibaba 1335.8±8.5 199 5,066 1317 No price yet
200 ?INTELLECT-3 1335.5±16.3 200 1,320 1316 No price yet
201 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12BNVIDIA 1331.3±13.8 201 1,725 1316.8 No price yet
202 DeepSeek-V3DeepSeek 1331.1±8.1 202 5,913 1328.8 No price yet
203 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-ThinkingAlibaba 1330.3±10.7 203 3,062 1314.1 No price yet
204 ?Trinity Large Preview 1328.5±7.5 204 7,256 1319.6 No price yet
205 Kimi K2 Preview (0711)Moonshot AI 1328.2±8 205 5,975 1323.5 No price yet
206 Command A (03-2025)Cohere 1327.6±5.7 206 12,795 1318.9 No price yet
207 Step-3StepFun 1326.4±15.2 207 1,388 1321.5 No price yet
208 GLM-4-Plus (0111)Z.ai 1326.3±15.1 208 1,459 1310.6 No price yet
209 Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)Google 1326.2±5.9 209 14,953 1332.4 No price yet
210 Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219)Anthropic 1323.9±6.6 210 9,713 1316.5 No price yet
211 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview (02-05)Google 1321.5±7.3 211 6,681 1318.7 No price yet
212 amazon-nova-experimental-chat (10-09)Amazon 1321.1±23.1 212 610 1306.3 No price yet
213 GLM-4.7-FlashZ.ai 1319.7±11.4 213 2,662 1296 No price yet
214 GPT-4.1 mini (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1318.6±6.9 214 8,636 1299.3 No price yet
215 Amazon Nova 2 LiteAmazon 1318.2±11.3 215 2,806 1292.4 No price yet
216 ?Trinity Large Thinking 1317.4±7.8 216 7,269 1308.4 No price yet
217 o4-mini (2025-04-16)OpenAI 1315.4±6.5 217 10,012 1293.7 No price yet
218 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022)Anthropic 1313.7±4.9 218 21,817 1291.9 No price yet
219 o3-mini (High)OpenAI 1313.2±8.8 219 4,762 1285.6 No price yet
220 MiniMax-M1MiniMax 1310.6±7.1 220 7,703 1297.5 No price yet
221 Mistral Small 3.2 (2506)Mistral AI 1309.8±9.6 221 3,754 1304.5 No price yet
222 Step-1o Turbo (202506)StepFun 1309.5±13.7 222 1,828 1307 No price yet
223 Gemma 3 12B ITGoogle 1307.1±17.5 223 1,010 1331.1 No price yet
224 Granite 4.2 30BIBM 1306.6±21 224 887 1287.6 No price yet
225 gpt-oss-120bOpenAI 1305.5±7.6 225 6,643 1274.4 No price yet
226 Step-2 16K Exp (202412)StepFun 1303.5±15.5 226 1,326 1327.4 No price yet
227 Mercury 2Inception 1302.5±21.5 227 741 1288.8 No price yet
228 GLM-4.5VZ.ai 1302.3±17.6 228 1,070 1294.9 No price yet
229 Hunyuan TurboS (20250226)Tencent 1301.9±21.2 229 662 1270.2 No price yet
230 QwQ-32BAlibaba 1301.1±7.6 230 6,131 1287.4 No price yet
231 Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1NVIDIA 1300.5±22.5 231 614 1287.8 No price yet
232 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1NVIDIA 1300.2±20.8 232 712 1314 No price yet
233 Qwen3-32BAlibaba 1298.3±16.7 233 1,121 1297 No price yet
234 GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI 1297.7±5.8 234 29,959 1291.2 No price yet
235 Ring-flash-2.0Ant Group 1297.2±15.2 235 1,493 1269.9 No price yet
236 Qwen-Plus (0125)Alibaba 1296±14.7 236 1,512 1292.2 No price yet
237 Ling-flash-2.0Ant Group 1295.8±15.2 237 1,477 1287.3 No price yet
238 MiniMax-M2MiniMax 1294.8±15.4 238 1,482 1286.5 No price yet
239 o3-miniOpenAI 1294.6±5.6 239 13,412 1272.7 No price yet
240 Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)Google 1293.4±7 240 9,441 1285.2 No price yet
241 Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1.5NVIDIA 1293.4±21.9 241 665 1306.5 No price yet
242 Grok 2 (2024-08-13)xAI 1291.9±5.9 242 17,406 1284 No price yet
243 Hunyuan Turbo (0110)Tencent 1290.5±19.8 243 711 1268.7 No price yet
244 Qwen3-30B-A3BAlibaba 1290.3±7.9 244 5,939 1271.1 No price yet
245 GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI 1289.6±6.8 245 12,147 1274.3 No price yet
246 Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)Google 1288.7±6.8 246 20,950 1272.2 No price yet
247 Gemma 3 4B ITGoogle 1288.1±16.9 247 1,080 1270.2 No price yet
248 Gemma 3n E4B ITGoogle 1287±8.7 248 4,863 1286.9 No price yet
249 Gemini Advanced (0514)Google 1286.2±7.8 249 13,201 1283.9 No price yet
250 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B (NVFP4)NVIDIA 1286±8.9 250 6,217 1262.6 No price yet
251 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B (BF16)NVIDIA 1283.8±10.1 251 3,592 1269.5 No price yet
252 GPT-5 nano (High)OpenAI 1283.3±14.1 252 1,726 1249.6 No price yet
253 DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)DeepSeek 1283±13.3 253 1,930 1284.9 No price yet
254 GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI 1281.9±5.6 254 18,532 1267.5 No price yet
255 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620)Anthropic 1280±6.1 255 21,916 1237.9 No price yet
256 o1-miniOpenAI 1279.9±6.1 256 14,272 1244 No price yet
257 GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)OpenAI 1278.7±6.4 257 24,529 1268.2 No price yet
258 GLM-4-PlusZ.ai 1278.6±8.3 258 7,164 1263.4 No price yet
259 Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E InstructMeta 1277.3±6.9 259 8,728 1266.1 No price yet
260 ?Yi Lightning 1276.3±8.2 260 7,632 1279.8 No price yet
261 Olmo 3.1 32B InstructAi2 1275.5±11.7 261 2,662 1264.5 No price yet
262 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct (FP8)Meta 1274.2±6.2 262 15,999 1261.7 No price yet
263 Qwen2.5-Plus (1127)Alibaba 1273.4±10.9 263 2,823 1261.6 No price yet
264 Hunyuan Large (2025-02-10)Tencent 1270.9±18.7 264 890 1264.1 No price yet
265 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct (BF16)Meta 1270.5±6.1 265 11,150 1259.5 No price yet
266 Qwen-Max (0919)Alibaba 1270.2±9.4 266 4,631 1247.9 No price yet
267 Granite 4.2 8BIBM 1269±22.4 267 843 1234.9 No price yet
268 Claude 3 Opus (20240229)Anthropic 1268.6±5.3 268 49,929 1234.6 No price yet
269 Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct (2503)Mistral AI 1268.6±7.5 269 7,057 1252.1 No price yet
270 Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E InstructMeta 1268.5±7.7 270 6,704 1248.7 No price yet
271 Olmo 3 32B ThinkAi2 1268±16.5 271 1,337 1256 No price yet
272 GPT-4 Turbo Preview (1106)OpenAI 1264.4±6.5 272 24,682 1244 No price yet
273 Grok 2 mini (2024-08-13)xAI 1262.2±6.2 273 14,508 1241.3 No price yet
274 GPT-4.1 nano (2025-04-14)OpenAI 1260.9±14.2 274 1,583 1259.8 No price yet
275 Mistral Large (2411)Mistral AI 1260.4±7.1 275 7,416 1241.6 No price yet
276 Granite 4.1 8BIBM 1259.5±20.4 276 1,000 1250.4 No price yet
277 Hunyuan Large VisionTencent 1258.9±18.2 277 1,082 1247.6 No price yet
278 Mistral Large 2 (2407)Mistral AI 1257.9±6.8 278 12,224 1242.6 No price yet
279 GPT-4 Turbo Preview (0125)OpenAI 1257.2±6.7 279 23,492 1232.2 No price yet
280 Hunyuan Standard (2025-02-10)Tencent 1257±18.1 280 937 1241.9 No price yet
281 Magistral Medium (2506)Mistral AI 1256.8±12.4 281 2,390 1245.1 No price yet
282 Claude 3.5 Haiku (20241022)Anthropic 1256.3±5.1 282 16,809 1232.3 No price yet
283 Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta 1255±5.6 283 13,804 1250.2 No price yet
284 Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 70BAi2 1254.3±19.2 284 758 1231 No price yet
285 ?Athene V2 Chat 1254.1±7.6 285 6,686 1234.1 No price yet
286 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructNVIDIA 1252.6±13.7 286 1,828 1268.3 No price yet
287 Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)Google 1251.8±6.9 287 16,463 1221.9 No price yet
288 Olmo 3.1 32B ThinkAi2 1250±13.8 288 1,945 1226.6 No price yet
289 Gemma 2 27B ITGoogle 1248.7±5.5 289 20,390 1240.4 No price yet
290 Qwen2.5-72B-InstructAlibaba 1246.9±6.7 290 10,827 1221 No price yet
291 DeepSeek-V2.5DeepSeek 1246.8±8.2 291 6,613 1236.5 No price yet
292 Amazon Nova Pro 1.0Amazon 1246.5±7.4 292 6,609 1212.1 No price yet
293 ?Reka Core (20240904) 1242.4±13.3 293 1,890 1236 No price yet
294 Command R+ (08-2024)Cohere 1241±11.3 294 2,672 1234.4 No price yet
295 ?Athene 70B (0725) 1240.8±8.9 295 5,378 1238.1 No price yet
296 gpt-oss-20bOpenAI 1238.3±13 296 2,171 1201 No price yet
297 Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta 1235.7±6.2 297 14,962 1231.6 No price yet
298 MercuryInception 1229.3±28.5 298 467 1189 No price yet
299 ?Jamba 1.5 Large 1227.6±12.6 299 2,350 1211.5 No price yet
300 Granite-4.0-H-SmallIBM 1227.3±17.7 300 1,200 1209.5 No price yet
301 Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001)Google 1226.7±7.1 301 9,499 1217.3 No price yet
302 ?Gemma 2 9B IT SimPO 1225.9±11.6 302 2,801 1238.5 No price yet
303 Nemotron-4 340B InstructNVIDIA 1223.3±9.3 303 5,386 1202.3 No price yet
304 Aya Expanse 32BCohere 1222.1±7.8 304 7,297 1199.5 No price yet
305 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51B InstructNVIDIA 1219.9±18.1 305 1,007 1213 No price yet
306 Gemma 2 9B ITGoogle 1219±6 306 14,640 1205.3 No price yet
307 GPT-4 (0314)OpenAI 1218.7±8.3 307 12,861 1190 No price yet
308 Command R+Cohere 1218.7±7.1 308 19,567 1200.7 No price yet
309 Granite 4.2 3BIBM 1218.5±24.1 309 827 1207 No price yet
310 Claude 3 Sonnet (20240229)Anthropic 1217.7±6.6 310 27,297 1185.9 No price yet
311 ?Reka Flash (20240904) 1217.1±13 311 1,950 1202 No price yet
312 GPT-4 (0613)OpenAI 1213.9±6.8 312 22,099 1191.2 No price yet
313 Mistral Small 24B Instruct (2501)Mistral AI 1213.9±9.4 313 3,942 1194.4 No price yet
314 Amazon Nova Lite 1.0Amazon 1211.1±8.3 314 5,254 1196.6 No price yet
315 GLM-4 (0520)Z.ai 1210.5±11.9 315 2,609 1197.7 No price yet
316 Llama 3 70B InstructMeta 1206±6.3 316 37,706 1209.5 No price yet
317 OLMo 2 32B Instruct (0325)Ai2 1203.6±19.4 317 872 1198.3 No price yet
318 Qwen2-72B-InstructAlibaba 1201.6±7.8 318 9,976 1180.7 No price yet
319 Phi-4Microsoft 1197.8±7.7 319 6,470 1181.3 No price yet
320 Claude 3 Haiku (20240307)Anthropic 1193.9±6.3 320 29,876 1157.1 No price yet
321 Command R (08-2024)Cohere 1193±11.6 321 2,597 1169.7 No price yet
322 Amazon Nova Micro 1.0Amazon 1192.2±8.4 322 5,246 1171.5 No price yet
323 Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-InstructAlibaba 1191±14.6 323 1,540 1173.7 No price yet
324 Aya Expanse 8BCohere 1185.5±11.2 324 2,746 1167.8 No price yet
325 Ministral 8B (2410)Mistral AI 1180.6±15.4 325 1,350 1174.5 No price yet
326 Mistral Large (2402)Mistral AI 1179.7±7.6 326 15,192 1160.8 No price yet
327 Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8BAi2 1177.6±19.3 327 816 1181.2 No price yet
328 Hunyuan Standard 256KTencent 1173.4±20.6 328 752 1164.8 No price yet
329 Mistral MediumMistral AI 1172±9.3 329 8,402 1157.5 No price yet
330 Qwen1.5-110B-ChatAlibaba 1170.5±9.4 330 6,502 1147.7 No price yet
331 DeepSeek-Coder-V2DeepSeek 1170.3±10.8 331 3,882 1120 No price yet
332 ?Jamba 1.5 Mini 1165.4±12.5 332 2,361 1164.1 No price yet
333 Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta 1162±6.6 333 13,505 1154.1 No price yet
334 Command RCohere 1161.7±7.8 334 13,537 1154.1 No price yet
335 Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI 1161±7.6 335 12,808 1141.1 No price yet
336 ?Reka Flash 21B (Online, 20240226) 1160.3±12 336 3,632 1130.3 No price yet
337 Qwen1.5-72B-ChatAlibaba 1159.1±8.5 337 9,492 1136.8 No price yet
338 Gemma 2 2B ITGoogle 1157.1±6.5 338 12,543 1146.5 No price yet
339 ?Reka Flash 21B (20240226) 1152.2±9.9 339 5,831 1123.6 No price yet
340 Llama 3 8B InstructMeta 1147.8±6.6 340 25,481 1149.6 No price yet
341 WizardLM 70BMicrosoft 1144.5±14.7 341 2,313 1148.9 No price yet
342 ?Yi 1.5 34B Chat 1144.1±8.8 342 6,540 1134.9 No price yet
343 Gemini Pro (Dev API)Google 1143.9±11.8 343 4,634 1130.2 No price yet
344 QwQ-32B-PreviewAlibaba 1139.4±20.6 344 855 1133.5 No price yet
345 ?Zephyr ORPO 141B A35B v0.1 1139.1±17.8 345 1,129 1112.9 No price yet
346 GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125)OpenAI 1139±7.3 346 16,149 1092.1 No price yet
347 Granite 3.1 8B InstructIBM 1138.5±20.1 347 837 1128.6 No price yet
348 ?InternLM2.5 20B Chat 1135.9±12.1 348 2,757 1122.5 No price yet
349 Gemini ProGoogle 1126.8±18.7 349 1,319 1103.6 No price yet
350 Phi-3 Medium 4K InstructMicrosoft 1126.4±8.6 350 6,655 1106.2 No price yet
351 ?Tulu 2 DPO 70B 1123.3±16.7 351 1,547 1104.7 No price yet
352 Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI 1122.8±7.3 352 17,942 1108.5 No price yet
353 ?DBRX Instruct Preview 1121.5±9.7 353 7,999 1104 No price yet
354 ?Vicuna 33B 1118.8±10.1 354 5,627 1124.4 No price yet
355 Qwen1.5-32B-ChatAlibaba 1118.1±10.2 355 5,401 1082.7 No price yet
356 ?OpenChat 3.5 1116.8±15.6 356 1,995 1125.3 No price yet
357 ?Yi 34B Chat 1116.6±11.3 357 3,702 1107.8 No price yet
358 Qwen1.5-14B-ChatAlibaba 1112.3±11.3 358 4,502 1090.3 No price yet
359 ?Starling LM 7B Beta 1111.1±12 359 4,016 1095.4 No price yet
360 DeepSeek LLM 67B ChatDeepSeek 1110.6±18.7 360 1,142 1067.2 No price yet
361 ?OpenChat 3.5 (0106) 1105.2±12.2 361 3,121 1092.2 No price yet
362 ?Falcon 180B Chat 1105.1±31.8 362 342 1088.3 No price yet
363 ?Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO 1105±19.8 363 858 1101.4 No price yet
364 ?Snowflake Arctic Instruct 1100.9±10 364 7,241 1080.7 No price yet
365 ?Starling LM 7B Alpha 1098.3±13 365 2,509 1098.9 No price yet
366 WizardLM 13BMicrosoft 1098.2±15.3 366 1,814 1090.2 No price yet
367 ?OpenHermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 1095.9±18.3 367 1,136 1096.9 No price yet
368 Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta 1095.5±13.8 368 2,118 1093.9 No price yet
369 Llama 2 70B SteerLM ChatNVIDIA 1094.4±21.3 369 836 1090.3 No price yet
370 Phi-3 Small 8K InstructMicrosoft 1093.7±10 370 4,639 1082.6 No price yet
371 Llama 2 70B ChatMeta 1092.7±8.6 371 9,591 1074.6 No price yet
372 Granite 3.1 2B InstructIBM 1092±20.8 372 850 1115.7 No price yet
373 GPT-3.5 Turbo (1106)OpenAI 1091±13.5 373 3,932 1034.8 No price yet
374 SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0Upstage 1087.8±21 374 894 1089.1 No price yet
375 ?Dolphin 2.2.1 Mistral 7B 1085.9±28.4 375 382 1085.5 No price yet
376 ?Zephyr 7B Beta 1085.7±13.9 376 2,691 1102.1 No price yet
377 ?Zephyr 7B Alpha 1081.6±25.2 377 569 1068.5 No price yet
378 ?MPT 30B Chat 1079.3±22.5 378 647 1073.8 No price yet
379 ?Vicuna 13B 1078.9±10.6 379 4,672 1057.9 No price yet
380 Granite 3.0 8B InstructIBM 1078.4±15.2 380 1,751 1070.4 No price yet
381 Gemma 1.1 7B ITGoogle 1073.1±9.3 381 6,034 1059.2 No price yet
382 Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2Mistral AI 1073±10.5 382 4,703 1067.4 No price yet
383 ?Guanaco 33B 1066.3±22.7 383 714 1079.7 No price yet
384 Qwen1.5-7B-ChatAlibaba 1064.3±17.7 384 1,093 1034.3 No price yet
385 Llama 2 13B ChatMeta 1061.5±10.7 385 4,785 1046.6 No price yet
386 Phi-3 Mini 4K Instruct (June 2024)Microsoft 1056.6±11.2 386 3,382 1044.4 No price yet
387 Phi-3 Mini 4K InstructMicrosoft 1054.4±10.3 387 5,207 1036.7 No price yet
388 Granite 3.0 2B InstructIBM 1050.5±15.1 388 1,820 1046 No price yet
389 Qwen-14B-ChatAlibaba 1049.9±18.1 389 1,230 1027.4 No price yet
390 ?Vicuna 7B 1048.5±15 390 1,783 1020.8 No price yet
391 Code Llama 34B InstructMeta 1048.3±14.5 391 2,003 1031.4 No price yet
392 Phi-3 Mini 128K InstructMicrosoft 1040.3±11.6 392 4,627 1024 No price yet
393 Llama 2 7B ChatMeta 1037.1±11.5 393 3,454 1033 No price yet
394 ?StripedHyena Nous 7B 1034.6±17.8 394 1,271 1029 No price yet
395 Gemma 7B ITGoogle 1033.8±14.6 395 2,191 1023.3 No price yet
396 Mistral 7B InstructMistral AI 1030.3±15 396 2,336 1028.1 No price yet
397 Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta 1029.7±14.7 397 2,047 1032.5 No price yet
398 ?SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct 1024.5±26.1 398 627 1031.2 No price yet
399 Code Llama 70B InstructMeta 1014.8±36.5 399 262 – No price yet
400 PaLM 2Google 1006.8±15 400 2,155 991.2 No price yet
401 Gemma 1.1 2B ITGoogle 1006±13.1 401 2,596 997.7 No price yet
402 OLMo 7B InstructAi2 1003.1±17.8 402 1,511 989.5 No price yet
403 Qwen1.5-4B-ChatAlibaba 1000.8±14.8 403 1,895 969 No price yet
404 ?Koala 13B 979.4±17.6 404 1,515 972.7 No price yet
405 Gemma 2B ITGoogle 978.3±18.5 405 1,152 986.2 No price yet
406 ?GPT4All 13B Snoozy 973.1±31.4 406 347 971.8 No price yet
407 ?MPT 7B Chat 972.8±20.4 407 892 957.4 No price yet
408 ?ChatGLM3 6B 972.5±20.1 408 1,108 969.8 No price yet
409 ?Alpaca 13B 968.2±19.2 409 1,217 967.3 No price yet
410 ?ChatGLM2 6B 952.7±22.5 410 775 940.9 No price yet
411 ?RWKV-4 Raven 14B 934±19 411 1,098 933.5 No price yet
412 ?OpenAssistant Pythia 12B 928.2±17.5 412 1,408 923.1 No price yet
413 ?ChatGLM 6B 925.3±19.9 413 1,056 899.8 No price yet
414 ?FastChat-T5 3B 907.5±20.6 414 940 901.9 No price yet
415 ?Dolly 2.0 12B 872.2±22.9 415 732 863.5 No price yet
416 ?StableLM Tuned Alpha 7B 867.9±23.4 416 681 867.6 No price yet
417 LLaMA 13BMeta 809±27.7 417 513 793.7 No price yet

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Data: LMArena (lmarena-ai), CC-BY-4.0 · Writing & literature · 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.