LMArena Text: creative writing leaderboard
- models measured
- 156
- lead over #2
- +7 Elo
- median
- 1379
Leader on LMArena Text: creative writing · read October 22
On October 22, 2026, 169 of our catalog's models had a LMArena Text: creative writing result, and Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 led with 1535, ahead of Google Gemini 4 Argon at 1527.
Prompts that ask for creative writing. People ask a question, compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one; the rating is built from those votes, as LMArena publishes it.
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| # | Model | Result | Votes | Interval (±) | Evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 1535 | 2,241 | ±14.1 | 88.8 | $20.00 | |
| 2 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | 1527 | 1,055 | ±19.4 | 81.0 | $10.00 | |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | 1509 | 3,551 | ±11.1 | 84.2 | $50.00 | |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 1505 | 15,218 | ±6.2 | 57.2 | $25.00 | |
| 5 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 1494 | 9,368 | ±7.3 | 79.3 | $50.00 | |
| 6 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | 1493 | 7,695 | ±8.1 | 83.0 | $25.00 | |
| 7 | Muse WonderMeta | 1491 | 1,146 | ±18.1 | 71.9 | $20.00 | |
| 8 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 1488 | 6,466 | ±8.6 | 58.0 | $3.75 | |
| 9 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 1488 | 9,182 | ±7.6 | 61.6 | $3.75 | |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | 1486 | 11,816 | ±6.9 | 67.5 | $25.00 | |
| 11 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 1482 | 24,045 | ±5.3 | 32.3 | $12.00 | |
| 12 | Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen | 1477 | 5,879 | ±8.7 | 62.4 | $6.00 | |
| 13 | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | 1470 | 9,462 | ±7.3 | 39.8 | $9.00 | |
| 14 | Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | 1467 | 1,838 | ±14.8 | 87.3 | $10.00 | |
| 15 | Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle | 1466 | 7,574 | ±7.9 | 62.5 | $3.75 | |
| 16 | MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi | 1466 | 791 | ±21.1 | 65.4 | $0.87 | |
| 17 | GLM 5.2Z.ai | 1463 | 10,217 | ±6.9 | 61.1 | $4.40 | |
| 18 | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 1462 | 4,272 | ±10.1 | 57.4 | $4.25 | |
| 19 | GLM 5.3Z.ai | 1458 | 5,455 | ±9.0 | 70.6 | $4.40 | |
| 20 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 1457 | 7,019 | ±8.0 | 62.3 | $15.00 | |
| 21 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | 1455 | 13,147 | ±6.5 | 71.3 | $30.00 | |
| 22 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | 1454 | 12,792 | ±6.5 | 65.0 | $25.00 | |
| 23 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 1454 | 17,698 | ±5.1 | 19.1 | $10.00 | |
| 24 | GLM 5.1Z.ai | 1453 | 12,579 | ±6.3 | 49.2 | $4.40 | |
| 25 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | 1449 | 8,740 | ±7.5 | 73.5 | $20.00 | |
| 26 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | 1446 | 9,724 | ±7.2 | 38.7 | $2.716 | |
| 27 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | 1445 | 5,696 | ±8.2 | 44.0 | $25.00 | |
| 28 | Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | 1442 | 12,425 | ±6.0 | 39.5 | $15.00 | |
| 29 | Grok 4.5xAI | 1442 | 8,280 | ±7.6 | 58.6 | $6.00 | |
| 30 | GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai | 1441 | 7,729 | ±7.8 | 57.7 | $0.50 | |
| 31 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek | 1439 | 1,998 | ±13.8 | 56.1 | $1.98 | |
| 32 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 1439 | 11,125 | ±6.8 | 64.4 | $15.00 | |
| 33 | MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi | 1438 | 14,502 | ±6.1 | 31.6 | $0.9152 | |
| 34 | GLM 5Z.ai | 1438 | 4,859 | ±8.9 | 41.7 | $3.20 | |
| 35 | Qwen3.7 PlusQwen | 1438 | 7,832 | ±7.6 | 33.2 | $1.28 | |
| 36 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | 1437 | 2,759 | ±11.9 | 62.5 | $0.84 | |
| 37 | Muse Spark 1.2Meta | 1436 | 2,023 | ±14.1 | 55.7 | $4.25 | |
| 38 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 1435 | 12,370 | ±6.5 | 57.3 | $15.00 | |
| 39 | Muse Spark 1.1Meta | 1435 | 9,419 | ±7.2 | 70.3 | $4.25 | |
| 40 | Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI | 1434 | 6,322 | ±8.2 | 52.1 | $4.00 | |
| 41 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 1427 | 6,244 | ±8.0 | 40.4 | $10.00 | |
| 42 | Grok 4.6xAI | 1426 | 6,900 | ±8.3 | 65.7 | $6.00 | |
| 43 | GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | 1425 | 1,688 | ±15.5 | 82.4 | $10.00 | |
| 44 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 1422 | 12,259 | ±6.2 | 38.6 | $2.85 | |
| 45 | Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle | 1421 | 7,473 | ±7.9 | 49.0 | $2.50 | |
| 46 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 1420 | 2,966 | ±11.8 | 85.1 | $50.00 | |
| 47 | GLM 5V TurboZ.ai | 1417 | 1,973 | ±14.0 | Not benchmarked | $4.00 | |
| 48 | Gemma 4 31BGoogle | 1417 | 967 | ±18.7 | 39.0 | $0.40 | |
| 49 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | 1416 | 10,574 | ±7.0 | 57.7 | $10.00 | |
| 50 | GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | 1413 | 9,657 | ±7.2 | 63.9 | $12.00 | |
| 51 | Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | 1412 | 6,868 | ±7.6 | Not benchmarked | $75.00 | |
| 52 | GLM 4.6Z.ai | 1412 | 5,146 | ±8.5 | 8.8 | $2.20 | |
| 53 | Step 5 PreviewStepFun | 1409 | 1,871 | ±14.4 | 61.1 | $2.70 | |
| 54 | R1 0528DeepSeek | 1405 | 2,408 | ±12.4 | Not benchmarked | $2.18 | |
| 55 | MiniMax M3MiniMax | 1404 | 12,117 | ±6.5 | 39.2 | $1.20 | |
| 56 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 1404 | 1,665 | ±14.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.41 | |
| 57 | Qwen3.6 PlusQwen | 1404 | 7,209 | ±7.8 | 44.1 | $1.95 | |
| 58 | DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek | 1403 | 448 | ±27.4 | Not benchmarked | $1.0142 | |
| 59 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek | 1403 | 8,580 | ±7.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.28 | |
| 60 | Hy3Tencent | 1403 | 2,575 | ±12.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.528 | |
| 61 | MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi | 1403 | 2,496 | ±12.7 | 54.7 | $0.28 | |
| 62 | Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen | 1402 | 16,934 | ±5.5 | Not benchmarked | $2.34 | |
| 63 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | 1401 | 10,587 | ±6.8 | 22.7 | $1.50 | |
| 64 | GLM 4.7Z.ai | 1401 | 1,959 | ±13.1 | 55.1 | $2.20 | |
| 65 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle | 1400 | 995 | ±18.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 66 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 1400 | 17,656 | ±4.9 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 67 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 1400 | 6,885 | ±7.5 | 30.0 | $0.88 | |
| 68 | Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | 1399 | 2,183 | ±13.4 | 30.0 | $2.40 | |
| 69 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | 1396 | 8,582 | ±7.5 | 58.0 | $1.20 | |
| 70 | GLM 4.5Z.ai | 1395 | 3,095 | ±10.8 | Not benchmarked | $2.20 | |
| 71 | MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi | 1393 | 7,898 | ±7.7 | 50.0 | $0.336 | |
| 72 | Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | 1391 | 14,039 | ±5.5 | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 73 | R Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection | 1390 | 931 | ±19.9 | Not benchmarked | $1.20 | |
| 74 | T InklingThinking Machines | 1390 | 9,187 | ±7.3 | 31.5 | $4.05 | |
| 75 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Qwen | 1384 | 1,082 | ±17.7 | Not benchmarked | $3.50 | |
| 76 | Qwen3.8 27BQwen | 1383 | 5,089 | ±9.2 | 74.2 | $2.55 | |
| 77 | Grok 4.7xAI | 1381 | 3,036 | ±11.8 | 66.7 | $6.00 | |
| 78 | Grok 4.3xAI | 1380 | 13,227 | ±6.5 | 37.4 | $2.50 | |
| 79 | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | 1378 | 2,926 | ±11.9 | 76.0 | $10.00 | |
| 80 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | 1376 | 7,659 | ±7.3 | 55.9 | $14.00 | |
| 81 | Claude Opus 4RetiredAnthropic | 1375 | 5,412 | ±8.6 | Not benchmarked | $75.00 | |
| 82 | Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | 1374 | 2,075 | ±13.6 | 25.5 | $7.50 | |
| 83 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 1371 | 25,836 | ±4.6 | 35.6 | $5.00 | |
| 84 | GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI | 1370 | 10,812 | ±6.9 | 35.8 | $4.50 | |
| 85 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen | 1368 | 4,521 | ±9.2 | Not benchmarked | $2.08 | |
| 86 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen | 1366 | 1,356 | ±16.7 | Not benchmarked | $1.90 | |
| 87 | GPT-5OpenAI | 1365 | 4,020 | ±9.5 | 38.8 | $10.00 | |
| 88 | GPT-4.1OpenAI | 1363 | 6,652 | ±7.6 | Not benchmarked | $8.00 | |
| 89 | Mistral Large 4Mistral AI | 1363 | 2,129 | ±13.5 | 56.4 | $4.18 | |
| 90 | GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | 1363 | 14,373 | ±6.7 | 57.3 | $0.50 | |
| 91 | Qwen3.5-27BQwen | 1362 | 4,304 | ±9.3 | Not benchmarked | $1.56 | |
| 92 | o3OpenAI | 1359 | 7,636 | ±7.3 | Not benchmarked | $8.00 | |
| 93 | Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | 1357 | 9,780 | ±6.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 94 | R1RetiredDeepSeek | 1354 | 3,289 | ±10.3 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 95 | MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | 1354 | 14,854 | ±6.0 | 36.2 | $1.20 | |
| 96 | GLM 4.6VZ.ai | 1347 | 424 | ±28.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.90 | |
| 97 | o1OpenAI | 1347 | 4,642 | ±9.0 | Not benchmarked | $60.00 | |
| 98 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen | 1347 | 4,682 | ±8.9 | Not benchmarked | $1.30 | |
| 99 | Gemma 3 27BGoogle | 1345 | 6,304 | ±7.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 100 | Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | 1343 | 4,065 | ±9.5 | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 101 | GLM 4.5 AirZ.ai | 1343 | 4,004 | ±9.5 | Not benchmarked | $1.10 | |
| 102 | Qwen3.5-FlashQwen | 1343 | 9,735 | ±6.9 | 41.1 | $0.26 | |
| 103 | Claude Sonnet 4RetiredAnthropic | 1342 | 4,905 | ±8.9 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 104 | Gemini 2.0 FlashRetiredGoogle | 1339 | 6,272 | ±7.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 105 | Hy3 previewTencent | 1339 | 1,046 | ±18.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 106 | T Inkling SmallThinking Machines | 1334 | 7,389 | ±8.1 | 27.3 | $1.20 | |
| 107 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructQwen | 1333 | 3,037 | ±10.8 | Not benchmarked | $1.10 | |
| 108 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen | 1333 | 3,237 | ±10.6 | Not benchmarked | $1.50 | |
| 109 | Gemini 1.5 ProRetiredGoogle | 1332 | 8,062 | ±7.3 | Not benchmarked | $5.00 | |
| 110 | Gemma 3 12BGoogle | 1331 | 600 | ±23.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.1625 | |
| 111 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 1331 | 6,669 | ±7.8 | 37.2 | $1.20 | |
| 112 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | 1325 | 3,522 | ±10.2 | 34.2 | $2.00 | |
| 113 | Command ACohere | 1319 | 7,604 | ±7.1 | Not benchmarked | $10.00 | |
| 114 | Solar Pro 4Upstage | 1317 | 5,060 | ±9.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 115 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Qwen | 1317 | 2,965 | ±10.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 116 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 1317 | 1,121 | ±17.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.45 | |
| 117 | Claude 3.7 SonnetRetiredAnthropic | 1317 | 5,936 | ±8.1 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 118 | GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI | 1315 | 10,371 | ±7.2 | 44.8 | $1.25 | |
| 119 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingQwen | 1314 | 1,776 | ±14.1 | Not benchmarked | $1.20 | |
| 120 | Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI | 1308 | 4,742 | ±9.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.80 | |
| 121 | GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI | 1299 | 5,082 | ±8.7 | Not benchmarked | $1.60 | |
| 122 | MiniMax M1MiniMax | 1297 | 4,501 | ±9.0 | Not benchmarked | $2.20 | |
| 123 | Qwen3 32BQwen | 1297 | 616 | ±22.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 124 | GLM 4.7 FlashZ.ai | 1296 | 1,874 | ±13.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 125 | GLM 4.5VZ.ai | 1294 | 614 | ±22.7 | Not benchmarked | $1.80 | |
| 126 | o4 MiniOpenAI | 1294 | 5,785 | ±8.2 | Not benchmarked | $4.40 | |
| 127 | Nova 2 LiteAmazon | 1292 | 1,763 | ±14.4 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 128 | Qwen-PlusQwen | 1292 | 931 | ±18.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.78 | |
| 129 | Claude 3.5 SonnetRetiredAnthropic | 1292 | 11,712 | ±6.3 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 130 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI | 1291 | 16,599 | ±7.1 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 131 | Mercury 2Inception | 1286 | 541 | ±25.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.75 | |
| 132 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | 1286 | 897 | ±20.0 | Not benchmarked | $1.02 | |
| 133 | o3 MiniOpenAI | 1286 | 3,065 | ±10.7 | Not benchmarked | $4.40 | |
| 134 | Gemini 1.5 FlashRetiredGoogle | 1285 | 5,017 | ±8.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 135 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | 1274 | 3,911 | ±9.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 136 | GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI | 1274 | 6,756 | ±8.4 | Not benchmarked | $10.00 | |
| 137 | Qwen3 30B A3BQwen | 1271 | 3,339 | ±10.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 138 | Gemma 3 4BGoogle | 1270 | 666 | ±21.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.075 | |
| 139 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | 1269 | 2,412 | ±12.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.22 | |
| 140 | GPT-4 TurboOpenAI | 1268 | 14,396 | ±7.7 | Not benchmarked | $30.00 | |
| 141 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI | 1268 | 10,486 | ±6.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 142 | Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama | 1266 | 5,152 | ±8.6 | Not benchmarked | $1.00 | |
| 143 | GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI | 1260 | 1,005 | ±18.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 144 | Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI | 1252 | 4,115 | ±9.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.555 | |
| 145 | Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta Llama | 1250 | 8,045 | ±7.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.72 | |
| 146 | GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | 1249 | 911 | ±19.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 147 | Llama 4 ScoutMeta Llama | 1249 | 3,761 | ±10.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 148 | o1-miniRetiredOpenAI | 1244 | 7,858 | ±7.6 | Not benchmarked | $4.40 | |
| 149 | Mistral LargeMistral AI | 1242 | 4,439 | ±9.0 | Not benchmarked | $6.00 | |
| 150 | Gemma 2 27BGoogle | 1240 | 11,429 | ±6.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.65 | |
| 151 | Granite 4.2 8BIBM Granite | 1236 | 629 | ±27.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.20 | |
| 152 | Claude 3 OpusRetiredAnthropic | 1235 | 28,395 | ±6.5 | Not benchmarked | $75.00 | |
| 153 | Command R (08-2024)Cohere | 1234 | 1,474 | ±15.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 154 | Claude 3.5 HaikuRetiredAnthropic | 1232 | 9,836 | ±6.4 | Not benchmarked | $4.00 | |
| 155 | Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta Llama | 1232 | 8,250 | ±7.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.56 | |
| 156 | Qwen2.5 72B InstructQwen | 1221 | 5,684 | ±8.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 157 | Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | 1212 | 3,944 | ±9.5 | Not benchmarked | $3.20 | |
| 158 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | 1201 | 1,234 | ±17.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.15 | |
| 159 | Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | 1197 | 3,037 | ±10.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 160 | Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | 1194 | 2,415 | ±12.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 161 | GPT-4OpenAI | 1191 | 13,932 | ±8.3 | Not benchmarked | $60.00 | |
| 162 | Claude 3 SonnetRetiredAnthropic | 1186 | 15,592 | ±8.2 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 163 | Phi 4Microsoft | 1181 | 4,062 | ±9.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 164 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructQwen | 1174 | 836 | ±19.1 | Not benchmarked | $1.00 | |
| 165 | Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 1172 | 3,061 | ±10.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 166 | Claude 3 HaikuRetiredAnthropic | 1157 | 16,718 | ±7.5 | Not benchmarked | $1.25 | |
| 167 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta Llama | 1154 | 7,346 | ±8.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 168 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta Llama | 1094 | 1,070 | ±18.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.3325 | |
| 169 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta Llama | 1033 | 1,091 | ±19.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.201 |
Only models in our catalog are listed, and each appears once with its best published run. 186 rows were read from the source on October 22, 2026, and rows that match no catalog model are left out. Every other column is a figure the board publishes for the same run.