Creative Writing

18 scenarios across 6 subcategories. 161 models scored.

Subcategories

Subcategory Avg Score Best Model Best Score
AI-isms 83.20% Claude Opus 5 (Reasoning, Low) 93.69%
Prose Variety 68.75% Writer: Palmyra X5 83.01%
Dialogue 80.58% GPT-5.6 Sol 97.84%
Purple Prose 89.49% GPT-5.6 Sol (Reasoning) 99.20%
Mechanical Style 86.74% GPT-5.6 Sol (Reasoning) 99.81%
Clichés 78.76% o4 Mini High 90.38%

Model Leaderboard

All models ranked by their Creative Writing category score.

# Model Creative Writing AI-isms Prose Variety Dialogue Purple Prose Mechanical Style Clichés Overall
1 GPT-5.4 (Reasoning) 91.17% 91.56% 79.74% 93.69% 97.55% 97.97% 86.52% 93.85%
2 GPT-5.6 Sol 91.04% 92.68% 72.39% 97.84% 98.82% 99.63% 84.87% 90.76%
3 GPT-5.6 Sol (Reasoning) 91.03% 92.56% 73.84% 97.62% 99.20% 99.81% 83.12% 95.15%
4 GPT-5.4 90.94% 91.06% 81.26% 94.79% 96.74% 97.49% 84.30% 84.31%
5 GPT-5.6 Terra 90.92% 92.94% 73.87% 96.90% 98.78% 99.54% 83.46% 88.23%
6 GPT-5.6 Terra (Reasoning) 90.72% 92.93% 74.76% 94.42% 98.50% 99.04% 84.66% 92.49%
7 GPT-5.4 (Reasoning, Low) 90.51% 91.02% 80.88% 92.18% 96.68% 97.75% 84.51% 90.91%
8 GPT-5.5 90.39% 91.50% 76.57% 95.32% 98.39% 99.17% 81.40% 89.37%
9 GPT-5.5 (Reasoning) 90.26% 92.18% 75.69% 94.90% 98.18% 99.27% 81.35% 93.72%
10 GPT-5.5 (Reasoning, Low) 90.24% 91.49% 77.34% 96.25% 98.18% 99.26% 78.89% 92.51%
11 GPT-5.6 Luna (Reasoning) 90.10% 92.47% 72.24% 94.84% 98.87% 99.54% 82.62% 90.61%
12 GPT-5.6 Luna 89.69% 91.99% 71.83% 95.55% 98.25% 99.39% 81.14% 85.06%
13 Claude Opus 5 (Reasoning, Low) 88.87% 93.69% 75.41% 95.12% 96.48% 84.59% 87.91% 92.06%
14 GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning) 88.66% 90.82% 74.97% 90.04% 94.24% 98.70% 83.22% 89.82%
15 Claude Opus 5 (Reasoning) 88.64% 93.54% 75.80% 95.93% 95.60% 83.74% 87.25% 91.15%
16 Muse Spark 1.1 (Reasoning, Medium) 88.57% 91.62% 72.77% 92.70% 95.54% 93.88% 84.93% 93.81%
17 Qwen3.6 Max Preview 88.42% 83.61% 67.96% 91.85% 98.07% 99.15% 89.87% 93.72%
18 Claude Opus 5 88.13% 92.98% 76.11% 95.16% 95.11% 82.37% 87.08% 89.97%
19 GPT-5.4 Mini 88.10% 89.64% 75.74% 90.45% 94.65% 98.21% 79.92% 80.45%
20 GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning, Low) 87.72% 89.64% 74.97% 89.66% 95.16% 98.16% 78.74% 83.57%
21 Grok 4.5 (Reasoning, Low) 87.45% 88.61% 73.15% 91.72% 95.00% 89.93% 86.31% 90.94%
22 Grok 4.5 (Reasoning, High) 87.43% 88.48% 74.99% 92.01% 93.96% 89.17% 85.97% 94.12%
23 MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (Reasoning, High) 87.43% 91.24% 74.54% 92.23% 96.61% 86.94% 82.98% 92.99%
24 Muse Spark 1.1 (Reasoning, Minimal) 87.30% 91.25% 74.35% 88.84% 94.91% 92.57% 81.92% 91.43%
25 GPT-5.1 87.20% 88.21% 73.76% 87.44% 93.57% 93.87% 86.39% 90.73%
26 Qwen 3.5 397B A17B 86.93% 84.94% 68.63% 92.54% 94.84% 97.50% 83.12% 91.09%
27 GPT-5 86.87% 92.05% 62.58% 91.30% 92.06% 93.65% 89.59% 91.48%
28 MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (Reasoning, Low) 86.51% 89.73% 75.28% 90.50% 95.04% 82.70% 85.82% 92.07%
29 Grok 4.20 (Reasoning) 86.25% 84.92% 74.25% 83.26% 94.23% 92.86% 87.99% 90.87%
30 Qwen 3.6 Flash 86.02% 82.10% 67.13% 86.74% 96.80% 97.83% 85.50% 89.31%
31 Qwen 3.6 35B 85.97% 81.28% 65.03% 89.07% 96.65% 97.44% 86.36% 87.66%
32 Claude Opus 4.8 (Reasoning, Low) 85.86% 90.38% 74.07% 87.92% 94.06% 85.67% 83.05% 91.89%
33 MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 85.47% 86.79% 68.21% 92.60% 95.55% 91.73% 77.97% 92.57%
34 Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) 85.44% 80.73% 63.42% 87.20% 95.06% 97.27% 88.95% 94.08%
35 Qwen3.7 Max 85.39% 82.38% 61.91% 88.93% 95.46% 96.29% 87.36% 94.55%
36 Claude Opus 4.8 (Reasoning) 85.25% 89.74% 72.75% 86.50% 93.97% 84.99% 83.58% 92.33%
37 Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-04-20) 85.18% 82.23% 64.62% 85.08% 97.91% 96.76% 84.50% 89.79%
38 Grok 4.3 (Reasoning) 85.11% 85.99% 58.99% 90.45% 94.05% 93.58% 87.57% 90.99%
39 Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 84.81% 82.49% 81.37% 87.23% 95.70% 79.99% 82.05% 78.07%
40 Claude Opus 4.7 84.74% 90.95% 75.05% 88.63% 91.45% 80.25% 82.11% 89.90%
41 Claude Opus 4.7 (Reasoning) 84.73% 91.22% 72.71% 88.14% 92.86% 79.84% 83.59% 92.53%
42 Z.AI GLM 5 Turbo 84.66% 86.97% 75.38% 93.23% 87.80% 86.19% 78.37% 93.29%
43 Aion 3.0 84.64% 87.34% 72.32% 93.98% 92.17% 85.58% 76.47% 88.78%
44 Aion 3.0 Mini 84.60% 86.04% 71.45% 92.64% 90.67% 85.99% 80.84% 83.69%
45 MiniMax M3 84.57% 89.40% 70.33% 93.86% 90.97% 84.36% 78.49% 90.45%
46 Claude Opus 4.6 (Reasoning) 84.55% 88.14% 75.04% 93.56% 91.88% 82.92% 75.75% 95.06%
47 Grok 4.3 84.51% 84.86% 62.78% 87.13% 95.49% 91.18% 85.60% 78.00%
48 Qwen 3.5 9B 84.35% 87.56% 53.95% 91.95% 96.66% 96.17% 79.82% 84.05%
49 Claude Sonnet 4.5 84.19% 84.67% 78.05% 89.63% 89.39% 86.97% 76.41% 87.54%
50 Z.AI GLM 5.1 84.05% 85.25% 75.67% 92.52% 89.65% 83.70% 77.47% 93.74%
51 Writer: Palmyra X5 83.95% 82.97% 83.01% 84.42% 94.98% 79.92% 78.38% 78.11%
52 Z.AI GLM 5.2 (Reasoning, High) 83.92% 88.16% 73.96% 93.65% 90.45% 83.05% 74.28% 93.41%
53 Qwen 3.5 Flash 83.81% 84.96% 58.83% 87.13% 94.71% 95.18% 82.05% 85.66%
54 Claude Opus 4 83.79% 82.47% 77.58% 89.08% 90.42% 84.86% 78.30% 87.22%
55 DeepSeek V4 Pro 83.70% 85.40% 73.07% 91.48% 91.83% 83.03% 77.40% 82.05%
56 Z.AI GLM 5 83.63% 84.90% 77.33% 88.46% 88.49% 83.75% 78.86% 89.60%
57 Claude Opus 4.6 83.59% 88.68% 74.14% 92.37% 91.07% 82.67% 72.59% 92.31%
58 Qwen 3.5 35B 83.51% 85.05% 58.12% 89.61% 93.58% 93.58% 81.11% 87.01%
59 Grok 4.20 83.44% 83.35% 74.09% 77.13% 90.27% 89.30% 86.50% 81.21%
60 DeepSeek V4 Flash 83.42% 86.21% 69.82% 88.48% 90.79% 85.70% 79.51% 82.02%
61 Claude Sonnet 4.6 83.31% 87.17% 72.52% 95.20% 90.14% 78.39% 76.43% 90.66%
62 Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Reasoning) 83.09% 88.70% 71.90% 94.92% 89.19% 78.68% 75.13% 93.64%
63 DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning) 83.03% 86.00% 70.46% 88.10% 92.27% 81.27% 80.09% 88.06%
64 Qwen 3.5 122B 83.02% 84.79% 56.46% 86.76% 94.27% 95.52% 80.31% 90.32%
65 DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning) 82.99% 86.09% 73.38% 84.25% 91.70% 84.41% 78.10% 89.28%
66 Qwen 3.6 27B 82.81% 80.96% 63.42% 78.25% 96.75% 96.84% 80.66% 88.33%
67 Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Reasoning) 82.80% 80.26% 70.35% 80.87% 91.78% 91.26% 82.32% 84.34%
68 Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Reasoning, Minimal) 82.74% 80.98% 71.28% 78.76% 92.36% 91.31% 81.74% 84.45%
69 o4 Mini High 82.72% 77.81% 63.78% 78.26% 97.56% 88.52% 90.38% 88.78%
70 Claude Sonnet 5 82.58% 89.56% 73.22% 91.19% 81.40% 82.26% 77.86% 87.34%
71 Qwen 3.5 27B 82.54% 84.16% 54.98% 88.67% 94.46% 94.50% 78.44% 90.05%
72 ByteDance Seed 2.0 Lite 82.35% 93.39% 58.28% 85.96% 90.78% 89.48% 76.22% 84.27%
73 DeepSeek V3 (2025-03-24) 82.34% 81.15% 73.86% 83.31% 95.33% 79.89% 80.49% 79.93%
74 o4 Mini 82.04% 78.02% 63.95% 78.87% 97.30% 87.50% 86.60% 86.56%
75 Mistral Large 2 81.86% 81.31% 72.75% 83.10% 91.94% 80.68% 81.36% 81.50%
76 Claude Opus 4.5 81.71% 84.65% 76.11% 88.91% 83.27% 83.45% 73.89% 89.60%
77 MiniMax M2.7 81.70% 85.80% 72.16% 88.91% 83.74% 84.86% 74.72% 86.23%
78 Mistral Medium 3.1 81.70% 82.67% 74.30% 81.51% 94.59% 77.16% 79.96% 76.08%
79 Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) 81.67% 81.83% 77.22% 85.39% 90.49% 79.13% 75.97% 79.48%
80 ByteDance Seed 1.6 Flash 81.51% 90.73% 70.46% 79.96% 95.11% 77.28% 75.52% 70.92%
81 Claude Sonnet 5 (Reasoning, Low) 81.43% 89.01% 74.99% 87.10% 82.23% 81.53% 73.75% 90.16%
82 MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 81.35% 84.62% 70.84% 86.21% 93.06% 86.00% 67.36% 90.86%
83 Claude Sonnet 5 (Reasoning) 81.31% 89.71% 72.46% 87.18% 82.55% 81.18% 74.78% 90.40%
84 Qwen 3 32B 81.30% 82.63% 71.76% 78.83% 93.62% 79.28% 81.72% 79.37%
85 GPT-4.1 81.24% 82.39% 69.77% 76.96% 93.57% 80.93% 83.80% 86.82%
86 MiniMax M2.5 81.21% 86.13% 73.63% 88.93% 84.71% 78.48% 75.41% 86.71%
87 Mistral Large 3 81.21% 81.25% 72.38% 80.22% 92.61% 80.06% 80.74% 84.29%
88 Mistral Small 4 81.12% 80.83% 75.37% 82.49% 93.71% 78.11% 76.23% 75.23%
89 Xiaomi MIMO v2.5 Pro 81.08% 83.10% 68.44% 79.81% 92.48% 86.42% 76.24% 86.05%
90 Gemini 2.5 Pro 81.03% 78.06% 62.91% 77.40% 90.00% 90.61% 87.21% 88.44%
91 Gemini 3.6 Flash (Reasoning) 81.02% 82.36% 66.90% 71.94% 95.75% 87.28% 81.86% 94.90%
92 GPT-5.4 Nano (Reasoning) 80.97% 86.40% 69.53% 85.05% 84.09% 88.12% 72.62% 80.02%
93 GPT-5.4 Nano (Reasoning, Low) 80.93% 86.94% 71.57% 83.10% 84.72% 88.80% 70.47% 77.46%
94 Hermes 3 405B 80.92% 78.30% 69.94% 68.75% 93.61% 92.33% 82.60% 80.80%
95 GPT-5.4 Nano 80.50% 86.04% 71.90% 83.18% 83.70% 88.53% 69.68% 72.16%
96 GPT-5 Mini 80.48% 89.87% 60.91% 85.94% 83.16% 84.52% 78.48% 91.31%
97 GPT-5.2 80.36% 88.60% 67.99% 80.71% 87.55% 90.94% 66.36% 89.45%
98 Thinking Machines Inkling 80.27% 85.74% 69.67% 85.63% 92.99% 86.32% 61.24% 73.96%
99 Aion 2.0 80.24% 81.95% 64.90% 76.51% 89.80% 86.75% 81.53% 86.66%
100 Thinking Machines Inkling (Reasoning) 80.19% 84.62% 71.97% 86.71% 89.46% 85.97% 62.40% 90.78%
101 ByteDance Seed 2.0 Mini 80.11% 90.38% 59.35% 81.36% 87.57% 80.08% 81.90% 85.69%
102 DeepSeek V3.2 79.95% 80.86% 66.11% 73.33% 90.65% 87.42% 81.32% 82.22%
103 Gemini 3.5 Flash (Reasoning) 79.87% 82.33% 66.61% 67.65% 91.71% 89.17% 81.76% 93.35%
104 Gemini 3.6 Flash (Reasoning, Minimal) 79.25% 82.36% 66.51% 64.68% 94.74% 86.78% 80.44% 86.68%
105 Claude Sonnet 4 79.21% 79.20% 76.88% 82.84% 78.57% 84.00% 73.80% 87.64%
106 Xiaomi MIMO v2.5 79.16% 82.45% 66.42% 77.40% 88.79% 82.42% 77.49% 83.95%
107 Ministral 3 14B 79.11% 80.51% 74.94% 74.59% 92.74% 73.18% 78.70% 70.45%
108 WizardLM 2 8x22b 79.06% 80.21% 65.28% 77.45% 85.19% 86.84% 79.40% 71.45%
109 Claude Haiku 4.5 78.96% 84.13% 75.25% 82.25% 81.79% 78.41% 71.93% 83.36%
110 Z.AI GLM 4.7 78.89% 83.61% 61.49% 71.01% 91.38% 84.23% 81.62% 87.67%
111 Z.AI GLM 4.6 78.86% 79.06% 63.85% 74.32% 84.37% 87.76% 83.84% 87.64%
112 Gemma 3 27B 78.79% 75.45% 71.72% 64.44% 88.37% 88.98% 83.82% 75.70%
113 Gemini 3.5 Flash (Reasoning, Minimal) 78.55% 82.60% 68.64% 63.97% 88.91% 86.81% 80.34% 85.88%
114 ByteDance Seed 1.6 78.43% 87.67% 57.70% 85.62% 87.01% 74.93% 77.64% 89.59%
115 Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning) 78.13% 78.69% 60.53% 80.03% 85.05% 84.94% 79.53% 89.64%
116 DeepSeek V3 (2024-12-26) 77.88% 76.53% 66.31% 69.79% 91.42% 83.43% 79.81% 82.62%
117 Cohere Command R+ (Aug. 2024) 77.70% 76.55% 71.05% 64.24% 87.40% 89.16% 77.80% 67.04%
118 Gemini 2.5 Flash 77.57% 73.23% 65.37% 70.64% 83.37% 94.77% 78.05% 80.61%
119 DeepSeek V3.1 77.45% 78.57% 62.92% 68.61% 86.19% 84.49% 83.91% 82.35%
120 Hermes 3 70B 77.41% 77.97% 73.70% 59.25% 87.04% 88.06% 78.42% 69.74%
121 Z.AI GLM 4.7 Flash 77.36% 83.78% 61.69% 69.49% 89.60% 78.53% 81.09% 82.21%
122 Laguna XS 2.1 77.28% 81.27% 73.58% 72.93% 86.56% 75.66% 73.66% 75.42%
123 Ministral 3 8B 77.26% 78.74% 70.61% 72.81% 90.74% 74.38% 76.24% 69.98%
124 DeepSeek-V2 Chat 77.20% 75.84% 66.87% 66.95% 91.52% 82.94% 79.10% 84.09%
125 Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-02-15) 77.07% 81.88% 67.63% 61.06% 87.42% 92.52% 71.92% 86.17%
126 Ministral 8B 76.87% 78.83% 69.62% 76.29% 89.29% 73.33% 73.81% 63.77%
127 Mistral NeMO 76.72% 73.01% 59.98% 67.00% 89.84% 94.70% 75.80% 63.80%
128 Z.AI GLM 4.5 76.56% 80.07% 68.98% 73.22% 81.73% 83.00% 72.34% 84.95%
129 Gemma 4 26B (Reasoning) 76.38% 76.28% 59.82% 81.41% 78.14% 82.87% 79.74% 89.02%
130 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Reasoning) 76.31% 78.50% 59.35% 81.09% 80.96% 78.50% 79.50% 85.91%
131 Gemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning) 76.30% 71.84% 66.66% 65.33% 81.71% 94.83% 77.43% 84.14%
132 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite 76.01% 78.59% 58.53% 78.90% 82.35% 77.70% 79.97% 85.09%
133 Gemini 3 Flash (Preview, Reasoning) 75.87% 82.18% 61.94% 69.48% 78.95% 81.52% 81.18% 89.93%
134 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Preview) 75.78% 78.70% 59.92% 75.91% 82.09% 78.41% 79.66% 85.41%
135 Gemma 4 31B 75.59% 79.15% 62.09% 70.38% 83.35% 81.81% 76.74% 85.23%
136 GPT-4o, Aug. 6th (temp=1) 75.50% 71.49% 73.05% 59.42% 87.96% 80.80% 80.25% 81.28%
137 Ministral 3B 75.49% 76.30% 67.17% 75.29% 90.17% 73.22% 70.80% 59.25%
138 Ministral 3 3B 75.45% 75.23% 65.17% 74.49% 89.60% 77.57% 70.63% 65.02%
139 Gemma 3 12B 75.38% 72.08% 71.52% 54.87% 86.76% 84.22% 82.85% 76.07%
140 Gemma 4 26B 75.17% 77.47% 59.55% 73.77% 77.99% 81.90% 80.33% 84.89%
141 Qwen 2.5 72B 75.16% 73.92% 60.17% 64.34% 84.37% 95.34% 72.84% 73.17%
142 Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite 75.05% 71.91% 66.56% 62.67% 79.16% 93.78% 76.25% 79.91%
143 Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) 75.04% 83.34% 61.35% 64.78% 84.15% 76.32% 80.32% 85.47%
144 Z.AI GLM 4.5 Air 74.61% 80.00% 67.71% 65.43% 81.79% 84.17% 68.55% 80.74%
145 GPT-4.1 Mini 74.52% 72.34% 68.20% 57.72% 87.91% 80.59% 80.38% 81.40%
146 GPT-4o Mini (temp=1) 74.37% 70.73% 71.50% 53.50% 91.21% 81.11% 78.20% 77.82%
147 Cydonia 24B V4.1 74.19% 77.25% 78.35% 62.72% 77.12% 77.93% 71.78% 72.68%
148 Laguna S 2.1 74.16% 79.33% 73.87% 68.01% 81.48% 75.38% 66.91% 79.98%
149 Arcee AI: Trinity Mini 74.01% 75.18% 56.69% 63.42% 85.69% 83.32% 79.76% 67.68%
150 GPT-4o, Aug. 6th (temp=0) 73.65% 72.11% 58.95% 63.20% 84.90% 93.39% 69.33% 82.18%
151 GPT-4o Mini (temp=0) 73.10% 70.53% 59.43% 56.91% 88.83% 92.33% 70.56% 76.86%
152 Llama 3.1 70B 72.78% 74.82% 65.53% 70.76% 71.74% 82.99% 70.83% 77.41%
153 Gemma 3 4B 72.10% 69.45% 68.92% 52.95% 83.05% 78.08% 80.17% 66.33%
154 Mistral Small 3.2 24B 71.87% 72.69% 47.89% 68.93% 84.70% 88.45% 68.55% 77.36%
155 GPT-4.1 Nano 71.81% 68.54% 67.03% 55.61% 82.65% 76.30% 80.71% 69.90%
156 Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (Reasoning) 71.64% 71.77% 65.69% 65.73% 72.59% 87.33% 66.75% 83.10%
157 Nemotron 3 Super 69.75% 76.58% 57.81% 67.38% 70.69% 81.62% 64.41% 81.69%
158 Inception Mercury 2 68.31% 74.37% 50.37% 59.94% 67.97% 89.69% 67.53% 81.99%
159 GPT-OSS 120B 67.85% 75.69% 50.96% 55.74% 70.06% 84.17% 70.48% 84.81%
160 GPT-5 Nano 67.04% 84.30% 60.85% 62.32% 66.77% 77.89% 50.07% 80.16%
161 Nemotron 3 Nano 65.87% 74.00% 52.17% 60.70% 59.84% 84.19% 64.30% 74.50%