Best LLM for creative writing
- models ranked
- 156
- lead over #2
- +7 Elo
LMArena Text: creative writing · read October 21
As of October 21, 2026, Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 leads 156 models on LMArena Text: creative writing with 1535, ahead of Google Gemini 4 Argon (1527) and Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 (1509).
This list narrows the best LLM for general use ranking.
| Rank | Model | LMArena Text: creative writing | Evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic | 1535 | 92.2 | $20.00 | |
| 2 | Gemini 4 Argon Google | 1527 | 80.5 | $10.00 | |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic | 1509 | 89.1 | $50.00 | |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | 1505 | 66.9 | $25.00 | |
| 5 | Claude Fable 5 Anthropic | 1494 | 82.1 | $50.00 | |
| 6 | Claude Opus 5 Anthropic | 1493 | 81.8 | $25.00 | |
| 7 | Muse Wonder Meta | 1491 | 64.5 | $20.00 | |
| 8 | Gemini 3.7 Flash Google | 1488 | 69.9 | $3.75 | |
| 9 | Gemini 3.8 Flash Google | 1488 | 70.5 | $4.125 | |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic | 1486 | 51.1 | $25.00 | |
| 11 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google | 1482 | 35.3 | $12.00 | |
| 12 | Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen | 1477 | 63.5 | $6.00 | |
| 13 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Google | 1470 | 42.8 | $9.00 | |
| 14 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic | 1467 | 88.9 | $10.00 | |
| 15 | Gemini 3.6 Flash Google | 1466 | 48.3 | $3.75 | |
| 16 | MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi | 1466 | 72.6 | $0.87 | |
| 17 | GLM 5.2 Z.ai | 1463 | 57.7 | $7.00 | |
| 18 | Muse Spark 1.3 Meta | 1462 | 79.7 | $4.25 | |
| 19 | GLM 5.3 Z.ai | 1458 | 73.1 | $1.40 | |
| 20 | Kimi K3 Moonshot AI | 1457 | 61.8 | $11.936 |
How this list is built
Generated from the dataset on every refresh. Nobody picks the order by hand.
Models by their LMArena Text: creative writing result, as the board publishes it, best first. 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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- LMArena (Hugging Face dataset), fetched