Bad Writing Habits

Detects common prose quality anti-patterns in AI-generated creative writing, including passive voice, past progressive overuse, weak dialogue tags, filter words, purple prose, cliches, AI-ism words/adverbs/names, and more.

Price-Performance Score Distribution (Top 20)

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ScoreCostTime
GPT-5.4 Mini87%$0.01516.8s
GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning, Low)87%$0.01516.8s
GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning)88%$0.02228.1s
GPT-5.490%$0.0491.4m
GPT-5.4 (Reasoning, Low)90%$0.0551.4m
Writer: Palmyra X584%$0.01122.0s
Z.AI GLM 5 Turbo84%$0.008133.2s
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250785%$0.001159.2s
Grok 4.20 (Beta)82%$0.01815.8s
Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)82%$0.002230.2s
Claude Sonnet 4.584%$0.03538.1s
Z.AI GLM 583%$0.00841.2m
Mistral Small 481%$0.001418.2s
Rocinante 12B82%$0.001438.4s
Mistral Medium 3.181%$0.004836.5s
Grok 4.20 (Beta, Reasoning)83%$0.03934.0s
DeepSeek V3 (2025-03-24)82%$0.001439.4s
Grok 4.1 Fast81%$0.001837.8s
Qwen 3.5 Flash81%$0.002547.5s
GPT-5.4 Nano (Reasoning, Low)81%$0.005520.6s
0.700.800.901.00

Cost vs Performance

Compares total cost for this test against the test score. Quadrant lines are drawn at the median values. Only models with available cost data are shown.

5 low-scoring outliers hidden: Inception Mercury 2 (67.7%), GPT-5 Nano (67.7%), Inception Mercury (67.5%), Stealth: Aurora Alpha (66.9%), Nemotron 3 Nano (65.7%).

Most Stable Models (Top 20)

Ranked by stability (median × consistency). Click a model name to view its detail page.

ScoreConsistencyStability
GPT-5.490%94%85%
GPT-5.4 (Reasoning, Low)90%94%85%
GPT-5.4 (Reasoning)90%94%85%
GPT-5.4 Mini87%95%83%
GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning, Low)87%95%82%
GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning)88%94%82%
GPT-5.186%93%80%
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B85%92%79%
GPT-584%93%78%
Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)83%92%77%
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250785%91%77%
Z.AI GLM 5 Turbo84%90%76%
Claude Opus 4.6 (Reasoning)84%91%76%
Writer: Palmyra X584%89%76%
Qwen 3.5 Flash81%93%76%
Claude Opus 484%90%76%
Qwen 3.5 9B81%93%75%
Grok 4.20 (Beta, Reasoning)83%89%75%
Grok 4.1 Fast81%92%75%
Qwen 3.5 35B81%92%75%
70%80%90%

Top Overall Models (Top 20)

Ranked by composite score (performance, cost, speed & stability). Click a model name to view its detail page.

ScoreCostSpeedStability
GPT-5.4 Mini87%$0.01516.8s83%
GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning, Low)87%$0.01516.8s82%
GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning)88%$0.02228.1s82%
GPT-5.490%$0.0491.4m85%
GPT-5.4 (Reasoning, Low)90%$0.0551.4m85%
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250785%$0.001159.2s77%
Writer: Palmyra X584%$0.01122.0s76%
Z.AI GLM 5 Turbo84%$0.008133.2s76%
Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)82%$0.002230.2s75%
Mistral Small 481%$0.001418.2s74%
Grok 4.20 (Beta)82%$0.01815.8s74%
Grok 4.1 Fast81%$0.001837.8s75%
Qwen 3.5 Flash81%$0.002547.5s76%
GPT-5.4 Nano (Reasoning, Low)81%$0.005520.6s74%
Mistral Medium 3.181%$0.004836.5s75%
DeepSeek V3 (2025-03-24)82%$0.001439.4s74%
GPT-5.4 Nano80%$0.005726.3s75%
GPT-5.4 Nano (Reasoning)80%$0.006124.5s75%
Claude Sonnet 4.584%$0.03538.1s75%
GPT-5.4 (Reasoning)90%$0.0892.6m85%
70%80%90%
genreNovelcrafter Default PromptDetailed Writing Rules
Model Total ▼Literary fiction: old friends reuniteThriller: chase through city streetsRomance: separated couple reunitesFantasy: entering an ancient ruinMystery: examining a crime sceneHorror: alone in an eerie place at nightLiterary fiction: old friends reuniteThriller: chase through city streetsRomance: separated couple reunitesFantasy: entering an ancient ruinMystery: examining a crime sceneHorror: alone in an eerie place at nightLiterary fiction: old friends reuniteThriller: chase through city streetsRomance: separated couple reunitesFantasy: entering an ancient ruinMystery: examining a crime sceneHorror: alone in an eerie place at night
GPT-5.490%89%92%92%84%92%88%88%92%89%90%91%90%91%93%92%89%92%90%
GPT-5.4 (Reasoning)90%88%91%91%89%92%88%86%93%89%90%93%92%87%91%88%92%91%93%
GPT-5.4 (Reasoning, Low)90%89%91%90%86%91%86%86%93%90%90%89%90%88%91%92%89%93%90%
GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning)88%86%90%89%84%89%85%84%90%87%85%89%86%87%90%87%87%90%90%
GPT-5.4 Mini87%88%89%88%83%89%86%87%87%90%86%87%85%88%88%89%86%89%86%
GPT-5.4 Mini (Reasoning, Low)87%87%87%90%83%87%86%84%88%86%84%87%86%86%89%88%87%88%88%
GPT-5.186%84%83%83%80%85%83%84%88%87%87%90%88%85%90%86%86%90%89%
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B85%78%87%83%80%84%86%85%86%85%86%85%86%87%91%87%84%88%87%
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250785%83%86%83%78%81%81%86%87%83%80%85%85%89%91%87%84%87%87%
GPT-584%81%82%80%79%85%83%84%85%85%82%88%86%86%86%84%85%87%89%
Writer: Palmyra X584%83%86%80%75%81%81%85%88%83%78%83%84%90%90%90%84%89%85%
Claude Sonnet 4.584%81%85%80%77%85%79%84%85%83%74%83%86%86%90%88%87%90%89%
Z.AI GLM 5 Turbo84%81%85%84%77%80%83%83%87%84%77%86%84%84%90%85%85%88%88%
Claude Opus 4.6 (Reasoning)84%78%81%78%78%81%83%81%82%85%84%86%82%85%90%89%85%92%88%
Claude Opus 484%82%81%85%74%83%79%83%85%86%77%82%83%92%86%88%84%88%87%
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Detailed Writing Rules

Literary fiction: old friends reunite

Thriller: chase through city streets

Romance: separated couple reunites

Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin

Mystery: examining a crime scene

Horror: alone in an eerie place at night

genre

Literary fiction: old friends reunite

Thriller: chase through city streets

Romance: separated couple reunites

Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin

Mystery: examining a crime scene

Horror: alone in an eerie place at night

Novelcrafter Default Prompt

Literary fiction: old friends reunite

Thriller: chase through city streets

Romance: separated couple reunites

Fantasy: entering an ancient ruin

Mystery: examining a crime scene

Horror: alone in an eerie place at night