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LMArena Creative Writing leaderboard

As of October 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 has the highest published LMArena Creative Writing score on Noometry at 1533, out of 295 models with results.

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About LMArena Creative Writing

LMArena ratings restricted to creative-writing prompts.

Category
Writing & Preference
Introduced
2023
Format
Pairwise human votes
Unit
Arena rating (Bradley–Terry)
Official site
lmarena.ai

Top 15 models

  1. Claude Opus 5.5 1533
  2. Gemini 4 Argon 1531
  3. Claude Fable 5.1 1507
  4. Claude Opus 4.6 1505
  5. Claude Fable 5 1494
  6. Gemini 3.8 Flash 1492
  7. Claude Opus 5 1491
  8. Gemini 3.7 Flash 1490
  9. Claude Opus 4.7 1486
  10. Gemini 3 Pro 1482
  11. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 1482
  12. Qwen3.8 Max 1479
  13. Gemini 3.5 Flash 1470
  14. MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1468
  15. Gemini 3.6 Flash 1465

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All results

#ModelProviderRatingSettingSourceDate
1Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic1533highLMArena2026-10-08
2Gemini 4 Argon Google1531highLMArena2026-10-08
3Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic1507LMArena2026-10-08
4Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic1505highLMArena2026-10-08
5Claude Fable 5 Anthropic1494highLMArena2026-10-08
6Gemini 3.8 Flash Google1492highLMArena2026-10-08
7Claude Opus 5 Anthropic1491LMArena2026-10-08
8Gemini 3.7 Flash Google1490highLMArena2026-10-08
9Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic1486highLMArena2026-10-08
10Gemini 3 Pro Google1482LMArena2026-10-08
11Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google1482LMArena2026-10-08
12Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)1479LMArena2026-10-08
13Gemini 3.5 Flash Google1470mediumLMArena2026-10-08
14MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi1468LMArena2026-10-08
15Gemini 3.6 Flash Google1465highLMArena2026-10-08
16Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic1465xhighLMArena2026-10-08
17Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)1464LMArena2026-10-08
18GLM-5.2 Z.ai (Zhipu)1462LMArena2026-10-08
19Muse Spark Meta1459LMArena2026-10-08
20GLM-5.3 Z.ai (Zhipu)1457LMArena2026-10-08
21Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google1457LMArena2026-10-08
22GPT-5.5 OpenAI1455highLMArena2026-10-08
23Muse Spark 1.3 Meta1455LMArena2026-10-08
24Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic1454highLMArena2026-10-08
25Kimi K3 Moonshot AI1454LMArena2026-10-08
26Gemini 2.5 Pro Google1454LMArena2026-10-08
27GLM-5.1 Z.ai (Zhipu)1453LMArena2026-10-08
28Muse Spark 1.2 Meta1449muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)LMArena2026-10-08
29Qwen3.7 Max Alibaba (Qwen)1449LMArena2026-10-08
30GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI1448xhighLMArena2026-10-08
31DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek1446LMArena2026-10-08
32Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic1445LMArena2026-10-08
33GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)1442LMArena2026-10-08
34Grok 4.5 xAI1442LMArena2026-10-08
35Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic1442LMArena2026-10-08
36ERNIE 5.1 Baidu1441LMArena2026-10-08
37MiMo-V2.5-Pro Xiaomi1440LMArena2026-10-08
38Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)1439LMArena2026-10-08
39GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)1439LMArena2026-10-08
40GPT-5.4 OpenAI1439highLMArena2026-10-08
41Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) xAI1438LMArena2026-10-08
42Muse Spark 1.1 Meta1437LMArena2026-10-08
43Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent xAI1436LMArena2026-10-08
44DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek1435LMArena2026-10-08
45Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic1435LMArena2026-10-08
46Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)1435LMArena2026-10-08
47Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI1434LMArena2026-10-08
48GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI1432LMArena2026-10-08
49Grok 4.6 xAI1428highLMArena2026-10-08
50GPT-5.1 OpenAI1427highLMArena2026-10-08
51ERNIE 5.0 0110 Baidu1426LMArena2026-10-08
52Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI1423thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
53Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google1420LMArena2026-10-08
54GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI1419LMArena2026-10-08
55GPT-6 Astra OpenAI1418LMArena2026-10-08
56GLM-5V-Turbo Z.ai (Zhipu)1416LMArena2026-10-08
57Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic1416highLMArena2026-10-08
58MiMo-V2-Pro Xiaomi1415LMArena2026-10-08
59Gemma 4 31B IT Google1415LMArena2026-10-08
60Grok 3 xAI1414LMArena2026-10-08
61Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic1412thinking-16kLMArena2026-10-08
62GLM-4.6 Z.ai (Zhipu)1411LMArena2026-10-08
63Grok 4.1 xAI1411LMArena2026-10-08
64Step 5 Preview StepFun1410Step 5 PreviewLMArena2026-10-08
65GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI1410xhighLMArena2026-10-08
66Seed 2.0 Pro ByteDance Seed1406LMArena2026-10-08
67Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 OpenAI1405LMArena2026-10-08
68DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek1405LMArena2026-10-08
69MiniMax-M3 MiniMax1404LMArena2026-10-08
70Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)1404LMArena2026-10-08
71DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp DeepSeek1403LMArena2026-10-08
72DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek1403LMArena2026-10-08
73DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus DeepSeek1403LMArena2026-10-08
74Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)1402LMArena2026-10-08
75Hy3 Tencent1402LMArena2026-10-08
76Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google1402LMArena2026-10-08
77GPT-5.2 OpenAI1401LMArena2026-10-08
78DeepSeek-V3.1 DeepSeek1401thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
79Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Google1401LMArena2026-10-08
80Qwen3.5 397B-A17B Alibaba (Qwen)1401LMArena2026-10-08
81GLM-4.7 Z.ai (Zhipu)1401LMArena2026-10-08
82Gemini 2.5 Flash Google1400LMArena2026-10-08
83MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi1400LMArena2026-10-08
84Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA1398LMArena2026-10-08
85Grok 4 xAI1397LMArena2026-10-08
86GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI1396xhighLMArena2026-10-08
87GLM-4.5 Z.ai (Zhipu)1395LMArena2026-10-08
88Grok 4.1 Fast xAI1394LMArena2026-10-08
89GPT-4.5 OpenAI1394LMArena2026-10-08
90MiMo-V2.5 Xiaomi1393LMArena2026-10-08
91MiMo-V2-Omni Xiaomi1392LMArena2026-10-08
92Hunyuan T1 20250711 Tencent1392LMArena2026-10-08
93Grok 4.7 xAI1391xhighLMArena2026-10-08
94Mistral Medium Mistral AI1391LMArena2026-10-08
95Hunyuan Vision 1.5 Tencent1388thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
96Longcat Flash Chat Meituan1388LMArena2026-10-08
97Inkling Thinking Machines Lab1387LMArena2026-10-08
98Grok 4 Fast xAI1387LMArena2026-10-08
99Claude Opus 4 Anthropic1387thinking-16kLMArena2026-10-08
100Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI1386LMArena2026-10-08
101Qwen3.8 27B Alibaba (Qwen)1384LMArena2026-10-08
102Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)1384LMArena2026-10-08
103Kimi K2.5 Instant Moonshot AI1381LMArena2026-10-08
104Grok 4.3 xAI1380LMArena2026-10-08
105GPT-6 Sol OpenAI1378LMArena2026-10-08
106MiMo-V2-Flash Xiaomi1375LMArena2026-10-08
107Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI1374LMArena2026-10-08
108Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI1374LMArena2026-10-08
109Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic1372LMArena2026-10-08
110GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI1370highLMArena2026-10-08
111Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 Amazon1368LMArena2026-10-08
112Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)1368LMArena2026-10-08
113Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google1367thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
114Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)1366LMArena2026-10-08
115GPT-5 OpenAI1365LMArena2026-10-08
116DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek1364LMArena2026-10-08
117GPT-4.1 OpenAI1363LMArena2026-10-08
118GPT-6 Luna OpenAI1363LMArena2026-10-08
119Qwen3.5 27B Alibaba (Qwen)1362LMArena2026-10-08
120MiniMax-M2.1 MiniMax1361LMArena2026-10-08
121Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI1361LMArena2026-10-08
122o3 OpenAI1359LMArena2026-10-08
123Hunyuan Turbos 20250226 Tencent1359LMArena2026-10-08
124Step 3.5 Flash StepFun1357LMArena2026-10-08
125GPT-5.3 Chat OpenAI1355LMArena2026-10-08
126MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax1354LMArena2026-10-08
127Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) Moonshot AI1350LMArena2026-10-08
128Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 Amazon1350LMArena2026-10-08
129Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 11 10 Amazon1349LMArena2026-10-08
130o1 OpenAI1348LMArena2026-10-08
131GLM-4.6V Z.ai (Zhipu)1347LMArena2026-10-08
132Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)1346LMArena2026-10-08
133Gemma 3 27B Google1346LMArena2026-10-08
134Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic1345thinking-32kLMArena2026-10-08
135GLM-4.5-Air Z.ai (Zhipu)1343LMArena2026-10-08
136Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)1343LMArena2026-10-08
137Grok-3 mini xAI1342LMArena2026-10-08
138Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google1340LMArena2026-10-08
139Muse Glimmer Meta1339LMArena2026-10-08
140Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)1339LMArena2026-10-08
141Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)1334LMArena2026-10-08
142Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)1333LMArena2026-10-08
143Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google1333LMArena2026-10-08
144Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic1332thinking-32kLMArena2026-10-08
145Gemma 3 12B Google1331LMArena2026-10-08
146Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab1331Inkling SmallLMArena2026-10-08
147Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 Amazon1331LMArena2026-10-08
148MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax1331LMArena2026-10-08
149Step 2 16k Exp 202412 StepFun1328LMArena2026-10-08
150GPT-5 Mini OpenAI1325highLMArena2026-10-08
151Step 3 StepFun1321LMArena2026-10-08
152Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI1320LMArena2026-10-08
153Command A Cohere1319LMArena2026-10-08
154Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google1319LMArena2026-10-08
155Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 Amazon1318LMArena2026-10-08
156Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)1317LMArena2026-10-08
157Nemotron 3 Super NVIDIA1317LMArena2026-10-08
158Solar Pro4 Upstage1316LMArena2026-10-08
159Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 NVIDIA1314LMArena2026-10-08
160GPT-5.4 nano OpenAI1314highLMArena2026-10-08
161Nvidia Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49b v1.5 NVIDIA1307LMArena2026-10-08
162Step 1o Turbo 202506 StepFun1307LMArena2026-10-08
163Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 Amazon1307LMArena2026-10-08
164Mistral Small Mistral AI1305LMArena2026-10-08
165GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI1300LMArena2026-10-08
166MiniMax M1 MiniMax1298LMArena2026-10-08
167Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)1297LMArena2026-10-08
168GLM-4.7-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)1297LMArena2026-10-08
169GLM-4.5V Z.ai (Zhipu)1295LMArena2026-10-08
170o4-mini OpenAI1294LMArena2026-10-08
171Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)1293LMArena2026-10-08
172Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic1292LMArena2026-10-08
173GPT-4o OpenAI1292LMArena2026-10-08
174Nova 2 Lite Amazon1291LMArena2026-10-08
175Mercury 2 Inception1289LMArena2026-10-08
176Granite 4.2 30b IBM1288LMArena2026-10-08
177Llama 3.3 Nemotron 49b Super v1 NVIDIA1288LMArena2026-10-08
178QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)1288LMArena2026-10-08
179Gemma 3n E4b IT Google1287LMArena2026-10-08
180MiniMax-M2 MiniMax1286LMArena2026-10-08
181o3-mini OpenAI1286highLMArena2026-10-08
182Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google1285LMArena2026-10-08
183DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) DeepSeek1285LMArena2026-10-08
184Grok-2 (Dec 2024) xAI1284LMArena2026-10-08
185Gemini Advanced 0514 Google1284LMArena2026-10-08
186Yi-Lightning 01.AI1280LMArena2026-10-08
187gpt-oss-120b OpenAI1275LMArena2026-10-08
188Gemma 3 4B Google1271LMArena2026-10-08
189Hunyuan Turbo 0110 Tencent1269LMArena2026-10-08
190Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVIDIA1269LMArena2026-10-08
191Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct NVIDIA1269LMArena2026-10-08
192GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI1269LMArena2026-10-08
193GPT-4o mini OpenAI1268LMArena2026-10-08
194Llama 4 Maverick Meta1267LMArena2026-10-08
195Hunyuan Large 2025 02 10 Tencent1264LMArena2026-10-08
196Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)1264LMArena2026-10-08
197Llama 3.1-405B Meta1262LMArena2026-10-08
198Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 Alibaba (Qwen)1262LMArena2026-10-08
199GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI1260LMArena2026-10-08
200Olmo 3 32b Think Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)1256LMArena2026-10-08
201Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA1254LMArena2026-10-08
202Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI1253LMArena2026-10-08
203Granite 4.1 8b IBM1251LMArena2026-10-08
204Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta1250LMArena2026-10-08
205GPT-5 Nano OpenAI1249highLMArena2026-10-08
206Llama 4 Scout Meta1249LMArena2026-10-08
207Hunyuan Large Vision Tencent1248LMArena2026-10-08
208Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)1248LMArena2026-10-08
209Magistral Medium Mistral AI1245LMArena2026-10-08
210GPT-4 OpenAI1244LMArena2026-10-08
211o1-mini OpenAI1244LMArena2026-10-08
212Mistral Large Mistral AI1243LMArena2026-10-08
213Hunyuan Standard 2025 02 10 Tencent1242LMArena2026-10-08
214Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 xAI1242LMArena2026-10-08
215Gemma 2 27B Google1241LMArena2026-10-08
216Granite 4.2 8B IBM1236LMArena2026-10-08
217Claude 3 Opus Anthropic1235LMArena2026-10-08
218Command R+ Cohere1235LMArena2026-10-08
219Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic1233LMArena2026-10-08
220Llama 3.1-70B Meta1232LMArena2026-10-08
221Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)1231LMArena2026-10-08
222Olmo 3.1 32b Think Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)1226LMArena2026-10-08
223Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)1221LMArena2026-10-08
224Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google1218LMArena2026-10-08
225Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct NVIDIA1213LMArena2026-10-08
226Amazon Nova Pro Amazon1212LMArena2026-10-08
227Granite 4.0 H Small IBM1211LMArena2026-10-08
228Llama 3-70B Meta1210LMArena2026-10-08
229Gemma 2 9B Google1206LMArena2026-10-08
230Granite 4.2 3b IBM1205LMArena2026-10-08
231Nemotron 4 340b Instruct NVIDIA1203LMArena2026-10-08
232gpt-oss-20b OpenAI1201LMArena2026-10-08
233C4ai Aya Expanse 32b Cohere1200LMArena2026-10-08
234Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)1199LMArena2026-10-08
235Amazon Nova Lite Amazon1197LMArena2026-10-08
236Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI1195LMArena2026-10-08
237Mercury Inception1191LMArena2026-10-08
238Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic1186LMArena2026-10-08
239Phi-4 Microsoft1182LMArena2026-10-08
240Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)1182LMArena2026-10-08
241Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)1181LMArena2026-10-08
242Ministral 8B Mistral AI1175LMArena2026-10-08
243Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)1174LMArena2026-10-08
244Amazon Nova Micro Amazon1172LMArena2026-10-08
245Command R Cohere1170LMArena2026-10-08
246C4ai Aya Expanse 8b Cohere1168LMArena2026-10-08
247Mistral Mistral AI1158mediumLMArena2026-10-08
248Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic1157LMArena2026-10-08
249Llama 3.1-8B Meta1154LMArena2026-10-08
250Llama 3-8B Meta1150LMArena2026-10-08
251Wizardlm 70b Microsoft1149LMArena2026-10-08
252Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)1148LMArena2026-10-08
253Gemma 2 2b IT Google1147LMArena2026-10-08
254Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI1141LMArena2026-10-08
255Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)1137LMArena2026-10-08
256Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI1135LMArena2026-10-08
257Gemini 1.0 Pro Google1131LMArena2026-10-08
258Granite 3.1 8b Instruct IBM1129LMArena2026-10-08
259Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek1120LMArena2026-10-08
260Granite 3.1 2b Instruct IBM1116LMArena2026-10-08
261Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI1109LMArena2026-10-08
262Yi-34B 01.AI1108LMArena2026-10-08
263Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft1107LMArena2026-10-08
264DBRX Databricks1104LMArena2026-10-08
265Llama 3.2 3B Meta1094LMArena2026-10-08
266GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI1092LMArena2026-10-08
267Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat NVIDIA1091LMArena2026-10-08
268Qwen1.5-14B Alibaba (Qwen)1091LMArena2026-10-08
269Wizardlm 13b Microsoft1091LMArena2026-10-08
270Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute1089LMArena2026-10-08
271Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)1083LMArena2026-10-08
272Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft1083LMArena2026-10-08
273Llama 2-70B Meta1075LMArena2026-10-08
274Granite 3.0 8b Instruct IBM1071LMArena2026-10-08
275Mistral 7B Mistral AI1068LMArena2026-10-08
276DeepSeek LLM 67B DeepSeek1067LMArena2026-10-08
277Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google1060LMArena2026-10-08
278Llama 2-13B Meta1047LMArena2026-10-08
279Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM1046LMArena2026-10-08
280Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 Microsoft1045LMArena2026-10-08
281Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft1037LMArena2026-10-08
282Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)1035LMArena2026-10-08
283Llama 2-7B Meta1033LMArena2026-10-08
284Llama 3.2 1B Meta1033LMArena2026-10-08
285Codellama 34b Instruct Meta1032LMArena2026-10-08
286Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)1028LMArena2026-10-08
287Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct Microsoft1024LMArena2026-10-08
288Gemma 7B Google1024LMArena2026-10-08
289Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google998LMArena2026-10-08
290Palm 2 Google991LMArena2026-10-08
291Olmo 7b Instruct Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)990LMArena2026-10-08
292Gemma 2B Google987LMArena2026-10-08
293Qwen1.5 4b Chat Alibaba (Qwen)969LMArena2026-10-08
294Dolly 2.0-12b Databricks864LMArena2026-10-08
295Llama 13b Meta794LMArena2026-10-08

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Frequently asked questions

What does LMArena Creative Writing measure?

LMArena ratings restricted to creative-writing prompts.

Which model has the highest LMArena Creative Writing score?

As of October 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 has the highest published LMArena Creative Writing score on Noometry at 1533, out of 295 models with results.

What is the best open-weight model on LMArena Creative Writing?

MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the highest LMArena Creative Writing rating among open-weight models at 1468, ranking 14 of 295 overall.