Creative Writing

18 scenarios across 6 subcategories. 155 models scored.

Subcategories

Subcategory Avg Score Best Model Best Score
AI-isms 81.52% ByteDance Seed 2.0 Lite 93.39%
Prose Variety 67.93% Writer: Palmyra X5 83.01%
Dialogue 77.75% GPT-5.5 (Reasoning, Low) 96.25%
Purple Prose 88.35% GPT-5.5 98.39%
Mechanical Style 86.16% GPT-5.5 (Reasoning) 99.27%
Clichés 78.22% 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% 93.24%
2 GPT-5.4 90.94% 91.06% 81.26% 94.79% 96.74% 97.49% 84.30% 84.32%
3 GPT-5.4 (Reasoning, Low) 90.51% 91.02% 80.88% 92.18% 96.68% 97.75% 84.51% 91.41%
4 GPT-5.5 90.39% 91.50% 76.57% 95.32% 98.39% 99.17% 81.40% 89.09%
5 GPT-5.5 (Reasoning) 90.26% 92.18% 75.69% 94.90% 98.18% 99.27% 81.35% 92.98%
6 GPT-5.5 (Reasoning, Low) 90.24% 91.49% 77.34% 96.25% 98.18% 99.26% 78.89% 92.59%
7 GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning) 88.66% 90.82% 74.97% 90.04% 94.24% 98.70% 83.22% 90.65%
8 Qwen3.6 Max Preview 88.42% 83.61% 67.96% 91.85% 98.07% 99.15% 89.87% 94.54%
9 GPT-5.4 Mini 88.10% 89.64% 75.74% 90.45% 94.65% 98.21% 79.92% 82.43%
10 GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning, Low) 87.72% 89.64% 74.97% 89.66% 95.16% 98.16% 78.74% 85.75%
11 GPT-5.1 87.20% 88.21% 73.76% 87.44% 93.57% 93.87% 86.39% 92.54%
12 Qwen 3.5 397B A17B 86.93% 84.94% 68.63% 92.54% 94.84% 97.50% 83.12% 91.73%
13 GPT-5 86.87% 92.05% 62.58% 91.30% 92.06% 93.65% 89.59% 91.93%
14 Grok 4.20 (Reasoning) 86.25% 84.92% 74.25% 83.26% 94.23% 92.86% 87.99% 91.39%
15 Qwen 3.6 Flash 86.02% 82.10% 67.13% 86.74% 96.80% 97.83% 85.50% 90.65%
16 Qwen 3.6 35B 85.97% 81.28% 65.03% 89.07% 96.65% 97.44% 86.36% 89.05%
17 Claude Opus 4.8 (Reasoning, Low) 85.86% 90.38% 74.07% 87.92% 94.06% 85.67% 83.05% 92.14%
18 MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 85.47% 86.79% 68.21% 92.60% 95.55% 91.73% 77.97% 92.31%
19 Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) 85.44% 80.73% 63.42% 87.20% 95.06% 97.27% 88.95% 94.37%
20 Qwen3.7 Max 85.39% 82.38% 61.91% 88.93% 95.46% 96.29% 87.36% 95.75%
21 Claude Opus 4.8 (Reasoning) 85.25% 89.74% 72.75% 86.50% 93.97% 84.99% 83.58% 92.22%
22 Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-04-20) 85.18% 82.23% 64.62% 85.08% 97.91% 96.76% 84.50% 91.51%
23 Grok 4.3 (Reasoning) 85.11% 85.99% 58.99% 90.45% 94.05% 93.58% 87.57% 93.60%
24 Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 84.81% 82.49% 81.37% 87.23% 95.70% 79.99% 82.05% 80.10%
25 Claude Opus 4.7 84.74% 90.95% 75.05% 88.63% 91.45% 80.25% 82.11% 89.93%
26 Claude Opus 4.7 (Reasoning) 84.73% 91.22% 72.71% 88.14% 92.86% 79.84% 83.59% 93.23%
27 Z.AI GLM 5 Turbo 84.66% 86.97% 75.38% 93.23% 87.80% 86.19% 78.37% 94.27%
28 MiniMax M3 84.57% 89.40% 70.33% 93.86% 90.97% 84.36% 78.49% 90.88%
29 Claude Opus 4.6 (Reasoning) 84.55% 88.14% 75.04% 93.56% 91.88% 82.92% 75.75% 95.02%
30 Grok 4.3 84.51% 84.86% 62.78% 87.13% 95.49% 91.18% 85.60% 78.66%
31 Grok 4.20 (Beta, Reasoning) 84.50% 85.37% 70.03% 80.80% 90.81% 92.70% 87.27% 91.49%
32 Qwen 3.5 9B 84.35% 87.56% 53.95% 91.95% 96.66% 96.17% 79.82% 86.05%
33 Claude Sonnet 4.5 84.19% 84.67% 78.05% 89.63% 89.39% 86.97% 76.41% 88.03%
34 Z.AI GLM 5.1 84.05% 85.25% 75.67% 92.52% 89.65% 83.70% 77.47% 94.37%
35 Writer: Palmyra X5 83.95% 82.97% 83.01% 84.42% 94.98% 79.92% 78.38% 79.57%
36 Qwen 3.5 Flash 83.81% 84.96% 58.83% 87.13% 94.71% 95.18% 82.05% 86.38%
37 Claude Opus 4 83.79% 82.47% 77.58% 89.08% 90.42% 84.86% 78.30% 87.69%
38 DeepSeek V4 Pro 83.70% 85.40% 73.07% 91.48% 91.83% 83.03% 77.40% 82.63%
39 Z.AI GLM 5 83.63% 84.90% 77.33% 88.46% 88.49% 83.75% 78.86% 91.23%
40 Claude Opus 4.6 83.59% 88.68% 74.14% 92.37% 91.07% 82.67% 72.59% 92.35%
41 Qwen 3.5 35B 83.51% 85.05% 58.12% 89.61% 93.58% 93.58% 81.11% 88.00%
42 Grok 4.20 83.44% 83.35% 74.09% 77.13% 90.27% 89.30% 86.50% 81.70%
43 DeepSeek V4 Flash 83.42% 86.21% 69.82% 88.48% 90.79% 85.70% 79.51% 82.02%
44 Skyfall 36B V2 83.32% 82.10% 80.34% 74.44% 89.93% 89.59% 83.52% 65.76%
45 Claude Sonnet 4.6 83.31% 87.17% 72.52% 95.20% 90.14% 78.39% 76.43% 91.15%
46 Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Reasoning) 83.09% 88.70% 71.90% 94.92% 89.19% 78.68% 75.13% 93.66%
47 DeepSeek V4 Flash (Reasoning) 83.03% 86.00% 70.46% 88.10% 92.27% 81.27% 80.09% 89.01%
48 Qwen 3.5 122B 83.02% 84.79% 56.46% 86.76% 94.27% 95.52% 80.31% 91.53%
49 DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning) 82.99% 86.09% 73.38% 84.25% 91.70% 84.41% 78.10% 90.10%
50 Qwen 3.6 27B 82.81% 80.96% 63.42% 78.25% 96.75% 96.84% 80.66% 89.72%
51 Grok 4.20 (Beta) 82.80% 82.65% 73.10% 74.11% 89.84% 91.63% 85.46% 83.85%
52 o4 Mini High 82.72% 77.81% 63.78% 78.26% 97.56% 88.52% 90.38% 90.29%
53 Qwen 3.5 27B 82.54% 84.16% 54.98% 88.67% 94.46% 94.50% 78.44% 90.85%
54 ByteDance Seed 2.0 Lite 82.35% 93.39% 58.28% 85.96% 90.78% 89.48% 76.22% 84.80%
55 DeepSeek V3 (2025-03-24) 82.34% 81.15% 73.86% 83.31% 95.33% 79.89% 80.49% 81.99%
56 Grok 4.1 Fast 82.14% 78.06% 71.82% 78.96% 97.96% 84.23% 81.78% 89.55%
57 o4 Mini 82.04% 78.02% 63.95% 78.87% 97.30% 87.50% 86.60% 88.35%
58 Mistral Large 82.02% 81.60% 73.53% 81.53% 94.33% 81.07% 80.04% 80.15%
59 Rocinante 12B 81.94% 81.99% 79.52% 72.56% 92.33% 82.57% 82.68% 54.54%
60 Mistral Large 2 81.86% 81.31% 72.75% 83.10% 91.94% 80.68% 81.36% 82.41%
61 Claude Opus 4.5 81.71% 84.65% 76.11% 88.91% 83.27% 83.45% 73.89% 89.69%
62 MiniMax M2.7 81.70% 85.80% 72.16% 88.91% 83.74% 84.86% 74.72% 89.10%
63 Mistral Medium 3.1 81.70% 82.67% 74.30% 81.51% 94.59% 77.16% 79.96% 77.83%
64 Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) 81.67% 81.83% 77.22% 85.39% 90.49% 79.13% 75.97% 82.39%
65 ByteDance Seed 1.6 Flash 81.51% 90.73% 70.46% 79.96% 95.11% 77.28% 75.52% 73.27%
66 MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 81.35% 84.62% 70.84% 86.21% 93.06% 86.00% 67.36% 91.04%
67 Qwen 3 32B 81.30% 82.63% 71.76% 78.83% 93.62% 79.28% 81.72% 82.21%
68 GPT-4.1 81.24% 82.39% 69.77% 76.96% 93.57% 80.93% 83.80% 88.68%
69 MiniMax M2.5 81.21% 86.13% 73.63% 88.93% 84.71% 78.48% 75.41% 88.71%
70 Mistral Large 3 81.21% 81.25% 72.38% 80.22% 92.61% 80.06% 80.74% 85.43%
71 Mistral Small 4 81.12% 80.83% 75.37% 82.49% 93.71% 78.11% 76.23% 76.46%
72 Xiaomi MIMO v2.5 Pro 81.08% 83.10% 68.44% 79.81% 92.48% 86.42% 76.24% 87.36%
73 Gemini 2.5 Pro 81.03% 78.06% 62.91% 77.40% 90.00% 90.61% 87.21% 88.53%
74 GPT-5.4 Nano (Reasoning) 80.97% 86.40% 69.53% 85.05% 84.09% 88.12% 72.62% 81.36%
75 GPT-5.4 Nano (Reasoning, Low) 80.93% 86.94% 71.57% 83.10% 84.72% 88.80% 70.47% 79.48%
76 Hermes 3 405B 80.92% 78.30% 69.94% 68.75% 93.61% 92.33% 82.60% 82.86%
77 GPT-5.4 Nano 80.50% 86.04% 71.90% 83.18% 83.70% 88.53% 69.68% 74.40%
78 GPT-5 Mini 80.48% 89.87% 60.91% 85.94% 83.16% 84.52% 78.48% 92.62%
79 GPT-5.2 80.36% 88.60% 67.99% 80.71% 87.55% 90.94% 66.36% 90.26%
80 Mistral Small Creative 80.29% 80.94% 75.44% 78.30% 94.23% 76.63% 76.20% 73.27%
81 Aion 2.0 80.24% 81.95% 64.90% 76.51% 89.80% 86.75% 81.53% 89.21%
82 ByteDance Seed 2.0 Mini 80.11% 90.38% 59.35% 81.36% 87.57% 80.08% 81.90% 86.91%
83 DeepSeek V3.2 79.95% 80.86% 66.11% 73.33% 90.65% 87.42% 81.32% 82.25%
84 Gemini 3.5 Flash (Reasoning) 79.87% 82.33% 66.61% 67.65% 91.71% 89.17% 81.76% 94.08%
85 Claude Sonnet 4 79.21% 79.20% 76.88% 82.84% 78.57% 84.00% 73.80% 88.72%
86 Stealth: Hunter Alpha 79.18% 81.32% 68.88% 76.41% 91.65% 81.86% 74.96% 87.34%
87 Xiaomi MIMO v2.5 79.16% 82.45% 66.42% 77.40% 88.79% 82.42% 77.49% 85.05%
88 Ministral 3 14B 79.11% 80.51% 74.94% 74.59% 92.74% 73.18% 78.70% 72.54%
89 WizardLM 2 8x22b 79.06% 80.21% 65.28% 77.45% 85.19% 86.84% 79.40% 71.06%
90 Claude Haiku 4.5 78.96% 84.13% 75.25% 82.25% 81.79% 78.41% 71.93% 85.14%
91 Z.AI GLM 4.7 78.89% 83.61% 61.49% 71.01% 91.38% 84.23% 81.62% 88.69%
92 Z.AI GLM 4.6 78.86% 79.06% 63.85% 74.32% 84.37% 87.76% 83.84% 89.11%
93 Gemma 3 27B 78.79% 75.45% 71.72% 64.44% 88.37% 88.98% 83.82% 77.85%
94 Claude 3.5 Sonnet 78.69% 78.78% 68.25% 80.13% 82.20% 85.61% 77.15% 84.24%
95 Gemini 3.5 Flash (Reasoning, Minimal) 78.55% 82.60% 68.64% 63.97% 88.91% 86.81% 80.34% 86.47%
96 ByteDance Seed 1.6 78.43% 87.67% 57.70% 85.62% 87.01% 74.93% 77.64% 90.70%
97 Stealth: Healer Alpha 78.28% 81.02% 66.33% 77.16% 88.08% 82.39% 74.72% 85.93%
98 Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning) 78.13% 78.69% 60.53% 80.03% 85.05% 84.94% 79.53% 91.71%
99 LFM2 24B 78.10% 76.37% 69.90% 72.22% 91.50% 83.73% 74.86% 58.77%
100 DeepSeek V3 (2024-12-26) 77.88% 76.53% 66.31% 69.79% 91.42% 83.43% 79.81% 83.68%
101 Gemini 3 Pro (Preview) 77.77% 83.34% 63.57% 67.00% 91.81% 80.39% 80.50% 88.79%
102 Cohere Command R+ (Aug. 2024) 77.70% 76.55% 71.05% 64.24% 87.40% 89.16% 77.80% 69.03%
103 Gemini 2.5 Flash 77.57% 73.23% 65.37% 70.64% 83.37% 94.77% 78.05% 80.60%
104 DeepSeek V3.1 77.45% 78.57% 62.92% 68.61% 86.19% 84.49% 83.91% 82.39%
105 Hermes 3 70B 77.41% 77.97% 73.70% 59.25% 87.04% 88.06% 78.42% 72.57%
106 Z.AI GLM 4.7 Flash 77.36% 83.78% 61.69% 69.49% 89.60% 78.53% 81.09% 84.82%
107 Grok 4 77.34% 78.04% 67.50% 68.65% 91.44% 80.92% 77.48% 88.12%
108 Ministral 3 8B 77.26% 78.74% 70.61% 72.81% 90.74% 74.38% 76.24% 71.76%
109 DeepSeek-V2 Chat 77.20% 75.84% 66.87% 66.95% 91.52% 82.94% 79.10% 84.83%
110 Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-02-15) 77.07% 81.88% 67.63% 61.06% 87.42% 92.52% 71.92% 85.96%
111 Grok 4 Fast 77.03% 76.89% 68.43% 69.13% 92.79% 80.12% 74.82% 86.15%
112 Ministral 8B 76.87% 78.83% 69.62% 76.29% 89.29% 73.33% 73.81% 64.87%
113 Mistral NeMO 76.72% 73.01% 59.98% 67.00% 89.84% 94.70% 75.80% 65.04%
114 Z.AI GLM 4.5 76.56% 80.07% 68.98% 73.22% 81.73% 83.00% 72.34% 86.27%
115 Llama 3.1 8B 76.54% 78.41% 77.72% 73.18% 69.60% 81.03% 79.32% 63.35%
116 Gemma 4 26B (Reasoning) 76.38% 76.28% 59.82% 81.41% 78.14% 82.87% 79.74% 91.49%
117 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Reasoning) 76.31% 78.50% 59.35% 81.09% 80.96% 78.50% 79.50% 86.41%
118 Claude 3.7 Sonnet 76.31% 80.64% 70.66% 75.00% 81.90% 80.55% 69.12% 83.39%
119 Gemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning) 76.30% 71.84% 66.66% 65.33% 81.71% 94.83% 77.43% 86.51%
120 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite 76.01% 78.59% 58.53% 78.90% 82.35% 77.70% 79.97% 85.75%
121 GPT-4o, May 13th (temp=1) 75.88% 72.12% 69.83% 58.51% 87.39% 86.96% 80.44% 83.80%
122 Gemini 3 Flash (Preview, Reasoning) 75.87% 82.18% 61.94% 69.48% 78.95% 81.52% 81.18% 90.50%
123 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Preview) 75.78% 78.70% 59.92% 75.91% 82.09% 78.41% 79.66% 85.87%
124 Gemma 4 31B 75.59% 79.15% 62.09% 70.38% 83.35% 81.81% 76.74% 86.91%
125 GPT-4o, Aug. 6th (temp=1) 75.50% 71.49% 73.05% 59.42% 87.96% 80.80% 80.25% 82.62%
126 Ministral 3B 75.49% 76.30% 67.17% 75.29% 90.17% 73.22% 70.80% 61.29%
127 Ministral 3 3B 75.45% 75.23% 65.17% 74.49% 89.60% 77.57% 70.63% 67.22%
128 Gemma 3 12B 75.38% 72.08% 71.52% 54.87% 86.76% 84.22% 82.85% 78.41%
129 Arcee AI: Trinity Large (Preview) 75.26% 78.62% 68.56% 65.33% 81.59% 83.61% 73.85% 73.33%
130 Gemma 4 26B 75.17% 77.47% 59.55% 73.77% 77.99% 81.90% 80.33% 85.84%
131 Qwen 2.5 72B 75.16% 73.92% 60.17% 64.34% 84.37% 95.34% 72.84% 75.46%
132 Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite 75.05% 71.91% 66.56% 62.67% 79.16% 93.78% 76.25% 81.08%
133 Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) 75.04% 83.34% 61.35% 64.78% 84.15% 76.32% 80.32% 85.35%
134 GPT-4o, May 13th (temp=0) 74.89% 72.87% 60.13% 64.81% 86.01% 95.74% 69.79% 85.36%
135 Z.AI GLM 4.5 Air 74.61% 80.00% 67.71% 65.43% 81.79% 84.17% 68.55% 83.12%
136 Claude 3 Haiku 74.53% 70.91% 69.39% 60.58% 88.64% 88.96% 68.71% 71.19%
137 GPT-4.1 Mini 74.52% 72.34% 68.20% 57.72% 87.91% 80.59% 80.38% 83.20%
138 GPT-4o Mini (temp=1) 74.37% 70.73% 71.50% 53.50% 91.21% 81.11% 78.20% 79.08%
139 Cydonia 24B V4.1 74.19% 77.25% 78.35% 62.72% 77.12% 77.93% 71.78% 75.09%
140 Arcee AI: Trinity Mini 74.01% 75.18% 56.69% 63.42% 85.69% 83.32% 79.76% 70.90%
141 GPT-4o, Aug. 6th (temp=0) 73.65% 72.11% 58.95% 63.20% 84.90% 93.39% 69.33% 82.45%
142 GPT-4o Mini (temp=0) 73.10% 70.53% 59.43% 56.91% 88.83% 92.33% 70.56% 78.29%
143 Llama 3.1 70B 72.78% 74.82% 65.53% 70.76% 71.74% 82.99% 70.83% 78.40%
144 Gemma 3 4B 72.10% 69.45% 68.92% 52.95% 83.05% 78.08% 80.17% 68.57%
145 Mistral Small 3.2 24B 71.87% 72.69% 47.89% 68.93% 84.70% 88.45% 68.55% 78.58%
146 GPT-4.1 Nano 71.81% 68.54% 67.03% 55.61% 82.65% 76.30% 80.71% 71.94%
147 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B 71.71% 71.82% 70.84% 62.12% 69.97% 83.82% 71.70% 74.70%
148 Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (Reasoning) 71.64% 71.77% 65.69% 65.73% 72.59% 87.33% 66.75% 85.75%
149 Inception Mercury 69.99% 75.55% 40.36% 73.29% 72.27% 89.59% 68.89% 79.50%
150 Nemotron 3 Super 69.75% 76.58% 57.81% 67.38% 70.69% 81.62% 64.41% 84.56%
151 Inception Mercury 2 68.31% 74.37% 50.37% 59.94% 67.97% 89.69% 67.53% 83.85%
152 GPT-OSS 120B 67.85% 75.69% 50.96% 55.74% 70.06% 84.17% 70.48% 86.44%
153 Stealth: Aurora Alpha 67.54% 74.28% 49.43% 59.16% 65.58% 88.68% 68.10% 83.79%
154 GPT-5 Nano 67.04% 84.30% 60.85% 62.32% 66.77% 77.89% 50.07% 82.60%
155 Nemotron 3 Nano 65.87% 74.00% 52.17% 60.70% 59.84% 84.19% 64.30% 77.73%