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Best LLMs for Writing in October 2026
As of October 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads the Noometry writing & preference ranking with a score of 79.2, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 79.2. The two are close enough that new results could swap them.
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How the model's answers are rated in blind side-by-side comparisons, by people and by LLM judges, including creative writing.
- Claude Opus 5 79.2
- Claude Fable 5.1 79.2
- Claude Opus 5.5 78.2
- Kimi K3 76.6
- Claude Fable 5 75.9
- GLM-5.3 75.7
- GPT-6 Astra 75.3
- Claude Opus 4.7 75.1
- Muse Spark 1.3 73.6
- Claude Opus 4.6 73.5
Full ranking
312 models
| 1 | Anthropic Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 79.2 | $5 | $25 | — |
| 2 | Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 79.2 | $10 | $50 | — |
| 3 | Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 78.2 | $4 | $20 | — |
| 4 | Moonshot AI Kimi K3 | Moonshot AI | Open | 1.05M | 76.6 | $3 | $15 | — |
| 5 | Anthropic Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 75.9 | $10 | $50 | 25 |
| 6 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.3 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 1M | 75.7 | $1.40 | $4.40 | — |
| 7 | OpenAI GPT-6 Astra | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 75.3 | $10 | $50 | — |
| 8 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 75.1 | $5 | $25 | 33 |
| 9 |  Meta Muse Spark 1.3 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 73.6 | $1.25 | $4.25 | — |
| 10 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 73.5 | $5 | $25 | 19 |
| 11 | Meta Muse Spark 1.1 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 73.4 | $1.25 | $4.25 | — |
| 12 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 73.3 | $4 | $20 | 10 |
| 13 | OpenAI GPT-5.5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 72.7 | $5 | $30 | 25 |
| 14 | Meta Muse Spark 1.2 | Meta | Proprietary | 1.05M | 72.3 | $1.25 | $4.25 | — |
| 15 |  Google Gemini 3.8 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 72.2 | $0.75 | $3.75 | — | |
| 16 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 72.0 | $5 | $25 | 34 |
| 17 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 71.9 | $2.50 | $15 | 12 |
| 18 | OpenAI GPT-6 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 71.9 | $2 | $10 | — |
| 19 | Google Gemini 4 Argon | Proprietary | — | 71.4 | — | — | — | |
| 20 | Google Gemini 3.7 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 71.2 | $0.75 | $3.75 | — | |
| 21 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.2 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 1M | 70.4 | $1.40 | $4.40 | 23 |
| 22 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 70.2 | $3 | $15 | — |
| 23 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 70.2 | $2 | $12 | 11 |
| 24 | xAI Grok 4.7 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 70.0 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 25 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 69.2 | $2 | $10 | — |
| 26 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 68.5 | $0.95 | $4 | — |
| 27 | Google Gemini 3.6 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 68.2 | $0.75 | $3.75 | — | |
| 28 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 68.1 | $5 | $25 | 13 |
| 29 | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 68.0 | $0.20 | $1.20 | 12 |
| 30 |  Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.8 Max | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 67.1 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 31 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.1 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 200K | 66.9 | $1.40 | $4.40 | — |
| 32 | OpenAI GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 66.8 | $1.75 | $14 | 15 |
| 33 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 66.8 | $0.43 | $0.87 | — |
| 34 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 66.5 | $3 | $15 | 85 |
| 35 | Google Gemini 3 Pro | Proprietary | — | 66.4 | — | — | 1 | |
| 36 |  NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra | NVIDIA | Open | 262K | 66.3 | $0.50 | $2.20 | — |
| 37 | Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | Proprietary | 1.05M | 66.1 | $2 | $12 | — | |
| 38 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 205K | 66.0 | $1 | $3.20 | 23 |
| 39 | Meta Muse Spark | Meta | Proprietary | — | 66.0 | — | — | — |
| 40 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 1M | 66.0 | $2 | $10 | — |
| 41 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 Max Preview | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | — | 66.0 | — | — | — |
| 42 | xAI Grok 4.5 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 65.8 | $2 | $6 | 4 |
| 43 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.8 27B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 65.8 | $0.99 | $1.49 | — |
| 44 | xAI Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) | xAI | Proprietary | 1M | 65.7 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 61 |
| 45 | Google Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Proprietary | 1.05M | 65.5 | $0.50 | $3 | — | |
| 46 |  DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 Pro | DeepSeek | Open | 1M | 65.5 | $0.66 | $1.98 | 16 |
| 47 | Google Gemini 3.5 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 65.5 | $1.50 | $9 | — | |
| 48 | DeepSeek DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek | Open | 1M | 65.4 | $0.15 | $0.60 | — |
| 49 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 65.3 | $0.43 | $0.87 | — |
| 50 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5.3-Flash | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 1M | 65.3 | $0.15 | $0.50 | — |
| 51 | Thinking Machines Lab Inkling | Thinking Machines Lab | Open | 66K | 65.2 | $1.87 | $4.68 | — |
| 52 |  Baidu ERNIE 5.1 | Baidu | Proprietary | — | 65.1 | — | — | — |
| 53 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 65.1 | $0.45 | $2.25 | 66 |
| 54 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.7 Max | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 65.0 | $2.50 | $7.50 | — |
| 55 | OpenAI GPT-5.1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 64.5 | $1.25 | $10 | — |
| 56 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.7 Plus | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 64.3 | $0.40 | $1.60 | — |
| 57 | Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | Proprietary | 1.05M | 64.2 | $0.30 | $2.50 | — | |
| 58 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 64.0 | $0.75 | $4.50 | 10 |
| 59 | xAI Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent | xAI | Proprietary | 1M | 64.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | — |
| 60 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 262K | 63.8 | $1.30 | $7.80 | — |
| 61 | DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 Flash | DeepSeek | Open | 1M | 63.8 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 6 |
| 62 | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | Proprietary | 1.05M | 63.7 | $1.25 | $10 | 5 | |
| 63 | OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 63.6 | $2 | $10 | — |
| 64 | OpenAI o3 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 63.5 | $2 | $8 | 3 |
| 65 | OpenAI GPT-5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 63.4 | $1.25 | $10 | 2 |
| 66 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 63.1 | $0.14 | $0.28 | — |
| 67 | Baidu ERNIE 5.0 0110 | Baidu | Proprietary | — | 63.1 | — | — | — |
| 68 | OpenAI GPT-5.3 Chat | OpenAI | Proprietary | 128K | 63.1 | $1.75 | $14 | — |
| 69 |  ByteDance Seed Seed 2.0 Pro | ByteDance Seed | Proprietary | 256K | 62.9 | $0.50 | $3 | — |
| 70 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro | Xiaomi | Proprietary | 1.05M | 62.8 | $0.43 | $0.87 | — |
| 71 |  StepFun Step 5 Preview | StepFun | Proprietary | 1.02M | 62.8 | $1 | $2.70 | — |
| 72 | OpenAI Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 | OpenAI | Proprietary | — | 62.6 | — | — | 21 |
| 73 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-5V-Turbo | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Proprietary | 200K | 62.5 | $1.20 | $4 | — |
| 74 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 62.4 | $15 | $75 | — |
| 75 | xAI Grok 4.1 | xAI | Proprietary | — | 62.4 | — | — | — |
| 76 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3 Max | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 262K | 62.4 | $1.20 | $6 | 48 |
| 77 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | DeepSeek | Open | 164K | 62.4 | $0.26 | $0.38 | 16 |
| 78 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 397B-A17B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 62.3 | $0.60 | $3.60 | 9 |
| 79 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Moonshot AI | Open | 262K | 62.3 | $0.57 | $2.30 | 201 |
| 80 | xAI Grok 4.6 | xAI | Proprietary | 500K | 62.3 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 81 |  Tencent Hy3 | Tencent | Open | 262K | 62.2 | $0.0825 | $0.33 | — |
| 82 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.6 Plus | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 62.2 | $0.50 | $3 | — |
| 83 |  MiniMax MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax | Open | 1M | 62.1 | $0.30 | $1.20 | — |
| 84 | Amazon Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Amazon | Proprietary | — | 61.8 | — | — | — |
| 85 | OpenAI GPT-5.5 Instant | OpenAI | Proprietary | — | 61.8 | — | — | — |
| 86 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 | Xiaomi | Open | 1.05M | 61.6 | $0.14 | $0.28 | — |
| 87 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Omni | Xiaomi | Proprietary | 262K | 61.4 | $0.14 | $0.28 | — |
| 88 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1 | DeepSeek | Proprietary | 164K | 61.4 | $0.50 | $2.15 | 10 |
| 89 | Anthropic Claude Opus 4 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 61.2 | $15 | $75 | 29 |
| 90 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.6 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 205K | 61.1 | $0.60 | $2.20 | 12 |
| 91 | Meituan Longcat Flash Chat | Meituan | Open | — | 61.0 | — | — | 69 |
| 92 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus | DeepSeek | Open | 164K | 61.0 | $0.27 | $1 | 30 |
| 93 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.7 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 205K | 60.9 | $0.60 | $2.20 | — |
| 94 | Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | Proprietary | 1.05M | 60.9 | $0.25 | $1.50 | 10 | |
| 95 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 Instant | Moonshot AI | Open | — | 60.6 | — | — | — |
| 96 | Google Gemma 4 31B IT | Open | 262K | 60.5 | $0.09 | $0.34 | 3 | |
| 97 |  Mistral AI Mistral Large 4 | Mistral AI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 60.4 | $0.68 | $2.09 | — |
| 98 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3.1 | DeepSeek | Open | 164K | 60.3 | $0.25 | $0.95 | 328 |
| 99 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 60.2 | $0.70 | $2.80 | — |
| 100 | Tencent Hunyuan Vision 1.5 | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 60.1 | — | — | — |
| 101 | Mistral AI Mistral Large 3 | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 60.0 | $0.25 | $0.75 | 7 |
| 102 | xAI Grok 4 Fast | xAI | Proprietary | — | 60.0 | — | — | 577 |
| 103 | Mistral AI Mistral Medium | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 60.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 68 |
| 104 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Moonshot AI | Open | — | 60.0 | — | — | — |
| 105 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 122B-A10B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 60.0 | $0.40 | $3.20 | — |
| 106 | Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash | Xiaomi | Open | 262K | 59.7 | $0.14 | $0.28 | — |
| 107 | Thinking Machines Lab Inkling-Small | Thinking Machines Lab | Open | 524K | 59.6 | $0.45 | $1.20 | — |
| 108 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3 235B-A22B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 59.6 | $0.70 | $2.80 | 85 |
| 109 | Tencent Hunyuan T1 20250711 | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 59.5 | — | — | — |
| 110 | Amazon Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 12 10 | Amazon | Proprietary | — | 59.5 | — | — | — |
| 111 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 27B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 59.3 | $0.30 | $2.40 | — |
| 112 | MiniMax MiniMax-M2.7 | MiniMax | Open | 205K | 58.9 | $0.30 | $1.20 | — |
| 113 | StepFun Step 3.5 Flash | StepFun | Open | 256K | 58.8 | $0.10 | $0.30 | — |
| 114 | Amazon Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 11 10 | Amazon | Proprietary | — | 58.8 | — | — | — |
| 115 | Google Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | Open | 262K | 58.6 | $0.0675 | $0.23 | — | |
| 116 | xAI Grok 4 | xAI | Proprietary | — | 58.5 | — | — | 1 |
| 117 | Mistral AI Mistral Medium 3.5 | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 58.5 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 50 |
| 118 | xAI Grok 4.3 | xAI | Proprietary | 1M | 58.5 | $1.25 | $2.50 | — |
| 119 | OpenAI GPT-6 Luna | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 58.3 | $0.10 | $0.50 | — |
| 120 | MiniMax MiniMax-M2.1 | MiniMax | Open | 205K | 58.3 | $0.30 | $1.20 | — |
| 121 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 58.0 | $0.50 | $2 | 111 |
| 122 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5-Flash | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 57.9 | $0.10 | $0.40 | — |
| 123 | Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 57.9 | $1 | $5 | — |
| 124 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.5 35B-A3B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 57.9 | $0.25 | $2 | — |
| 125 | OpenAI GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 57.6 | $2 | $8 | 116 |
| 126 | Meta Muse Glimmer | Meta | Open | — | 57.5 | — | — | — |
| 127 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 131K | 57.5 | $0.60 | $2.20 | 32 |
| 128 | Tencent Hunyuan Turbos 20250226 | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 57.4 | — | — | — |
| 129 | Amazon Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 | Amazon | Proprietary | — | 57.4 | — | — | — |
| 130 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3 | DeepSeek | Open | 164K | 57.4 | $0.24 | $0.90 | 73 |
| 131 | xAI Grok 4.1 Fast | xAI | Proprietary | 128K | 57.2 | $0.20 | $0.50 | — |
| 132 | Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 | Anthropic | Proprietary | 200K | 57.1 | $3 | $15 | 31 |
| 133 | OpenAI o3-pro | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 57.1 | $20 | $80 | 1 |
| 134 | OpenAI GPT-4.5 | OpenAI | Proprietary | — | 56.9 | — | — | — |
| 135 | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Proprietary | 1.05M | 56.8 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 172 | |
| 136 | Amazon Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 20 | Amazon | Proprietary | — | 56.6 | — | — | — |
| 137 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.6V | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 128K | 56.6 | $0.30 | $0.90 | — |
| 138 |  Upstage Solar Pro4 | Upstage | Proprietary | 524K | 56.5 | $0.30 | $1.20 | — |
| 139 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5-Air | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 131K | 55.9 | $0.20 | $1.10 | 160 |
| 140 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super | NVIDIA | Open | 262K | 55.9 | $0.08 | $0.45 | — |
| 141 | xAI Grok 3 | xAI | Proprietary | — | 55.8 | — | — | 42 |
| 142 | OpenAI GPT-5.4 nano | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 55.7 | $0.20 | $1.25 | 19 |
| 143 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-30B-A3B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 41K | 55.6 | $0.12 | $0.50 | 42 |
| 144 | OpenAI o1 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 55.6 | $15 | $60 | — |
| 145 | Mistral AI Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mistral AI | Proprietary | 131K | 55.5 | $0.40 | $2 | — |
| 146 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5-Max | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | — | 55.4 | — | — | — |
| 147 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 55.3 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 67 |
| 148 | OpenAI GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 55.2 | $0.25 | $2 | 3 |
| 149 | Amazon Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | Amazon | Proprietary | — | 54.7 | — | — | — |
| 150 | Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 54.4 | — | — | — |
| 151 | StepFun Step 3 | StepFun | Open | — | 54.3 | — | — | 7 |
| 152 | OpenAI o4-mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 54.0 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 6 |
| 153 | MiniMax MiniMax-M2.5 | MiniMax | Open | 205K | 53.9 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 49 |
| 154 | Amazon Nova 2 Lite | Amazon | Proprietary | 1M | 53.9 | $0.30 | $2.50 | — |
| 155 | Inception Mercury 2 | Inception | Proprietary | 128K | 53.8 | $0.25 | $0.75 | — |
| 156 | IBM Granite 4.2 30b | IBM | Open | — | 53.8 | — | — | — |
| 157 | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash | Proprietary | 1.05M | 53.8 | $0.30 | $2.50 | 152 | |
| 158 |  Arcee AI Trinity Large Thinking | Arcee AI | Open | 262K | 53.8 | $0.25 | $0.80 | — |
| 159 | NVIDIA Nvidia Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49b v1.5 | NVIDIA | Open | 131K | 53.1 | $0.40 | $0.40 | — |
| 160 | StepFun Step 1o Turbo 202506 | StepFun | Proprietary | — | 53.1 | — | — | — |
| 161 | MiniMax MiniMax M1 | MiniMax | Open | 1M | 53.1 | $0.55 | $2.20 | — |
| 162 | MiniMax MiniMax-M2 | MiniMax | Open | 205K | 53.0 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 17 |
| 163 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3 32B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 52.9 | $0.70 | $2.80 | 86 |
| 164 | Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 52.9 | — | — | — |
| 165 | Google Gemini 2.0 Pro | Proprietary | — | 52.7 | — | — | — | |
| 166 | OpenAI GPT-4o | OpenAI | Proprietary | 128K | 52.6 | $2.50 | $10 | — |
| 167 |  Perplexity Sonar | Perplexity | Proprietary | 128K | 52.6 | $1 | $1 | — |
| 168 | Google Gemma 3 27B | Open | 131K | 52.5 | $0.08 | $0.16 | 62 | |
| 169 | xAI Grok-3 mini | xAI | Proprietary | — | 52.5 | — | — | 10 |
| 170 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.5V | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 64K | 52.5 | $0.60 | $1.80 | 34 |
| 171 | Mistral AI Mistral Small | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 52.5 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 120 |
| 172 | Google Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Proprietary | — | 52.4 | — | — | — | |
| 173 | StepFun Step 2 16k Exp 202412 | StepFun | Proprietary | — | 52.3 | — | — | — |
| 174 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NVIDIA | Open | 262K | 52.3 | $0.05 | $0.20 | — |
| 175 | NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | NVIDIA | Open | — | 52.2 | — | — | — |
| 176 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen Plus | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 1M | 52.2 | $0.40 | $1.20 | 37 |
| 177 | Google Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | Proprietary | — | 51.7 | — | — | — | |
| 178 | Amazon Nova Premier 1.0 | Amazon | Proprietary | 1M | 51.0 | $2.50 | $12.50 | 9 |
| 179 | NVIDIA Llama 3.3 Nemotron 49b Super v1 | NVIDIA | Open | — | 50.8 | — | — | — |
| 180 | Alibaba (Qwen) QwQ-32B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 50.6 | — | — | — |
| 181 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen3.6 27B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 262K | 50.3 | $0.60 | $3.60 | — |
| 182 | OpenAI o3-mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 200K | 50.3 | $1.10 | $4.40 | — |
| 183 | Tencent Hunyuan Turbo 0110 | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 50.2 | — | — | — |
| 184 | 01.AI Yi-Lightning | 01.AI | Proprietary | — | 50.2 | — | — | — |
| 185 |  Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 50.2 | — | — | — |
| 186 | Google Gemma 3n E4b IT | Open | — | 50.1 | — | — | 13 | |
| 187 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | DeepSeek | Open | — | 49.8 | — | — | — |
| 188 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | DeepSeek | Open | — | 49.6 | — | — | — |
| 189 | IBM Granite 4.2 8B | IBM | Open | 131K | 49.6 | $0.06 | $0.25 | — |
| 190 | Google Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Proprietary | — | 49.5 | — | — | 92 | |
| 191 | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Molmo 2 8b | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 49.4 | — | — | — |
| 192 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | — | 49.4 | — | — | — |
| 193 | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 3 32b Think | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 49.1 | — | — | — |
| 194 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B | DeepSeek | Open | — | 49.0 | — | — | 18 |
| 195 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 48.8 | $0.17 | $0.70 | — |
| 196 | Google Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Proprietary | — | 48.7 | — | — | — | |
| 197 | Tencent Hunyuan Large 2025 02 10 | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 48.7 | — | — | — |
| 198 | xAI Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | xAI | Proprietary | — | 48.6 | — | — | — |
| 199 | OpenAI GPT-4.1 mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 48.6 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 86 |
| 200 | Google Gemini Advanced 0514 | Proprietary | — | 48.5 | — | — | — | |
| 201 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | NVIDIA | Open | 262K | 48.5 | $0.05 | $0.20 | — |
| 202 | OpenAI o1-mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | — | 48.4 | — | — | — |
| 203 | NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | NVIDIA | Open | — | 48.4 | — | — | — |
| 204 | IBM Granite 4.1 8b | IBM | Open | — | 48.1 | — | — | — |
| 205 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen Max | Alibaba (Qwen) | Proprietary | 33K | 47.8 | $1.60 | $6.40 | — |
| 206 | OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo | OpenAI | Proprietary | 128K | 47.7 | $10 | $30 | — |
| 207 | Meta Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Meta | Open | 128K | 47.6 | $0.10 | $0.32 | — |
| 208 |  Cohere Command A | Cohere | Open | 256K | 47.6 | $2.50 | $10 | 28 |
| 209 | Google Gemma 3 12B | Open | 131K | 47.5 | $0.05 | $0.15 | — | |
| 210 | Z.ai (Zhipu) GLM-4.7-Flash | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Open | 200K | 47.4 | $0.06 | $0.40 | — |
| 211 | xAI Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | xAI | Proprietary | — | 47.3 | — | — | — |
| 212 | IBM Granite 4.2 3b | IBM | Open | — | 47.2 | — | — | — |
| 213 | Anthropic Claude 3 Opus | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 47.2 | — | — | — |
| 214 | Tencent Hunyuan Standard 2025 02 10 | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 47.2 | — | — | — |
| 215 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 131K | 46.7 | $1.40 | $5.60 | — |
| 216 | IBM Granite 4.0 Micro | IBM | Open | 131K | 46.7 | $0.017 | $0.11 | — |
| 217 | OpenAI gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | Open | 131K | 46.5 | $0.037 | $0.17 | 55 |
| 218 | Tencent Hunyuan Large Vision | Tencent | Proprietary | — | 46.5 | — | — | — |
| 219 | Mistral AI Magistral Medium | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 46.3 | $2 | $5 | 0 |
| 220 | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 3.1 32b Think | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 46.2 | — | — | — |
| 221 | Inception Mercury | Inception | Proprietary | — | 46.2 | — | — | 35 |
| 222 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale | DeepSeek | Open | 128K | 46.0 | $0.58 | $1.68 | — |
| 223 | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 45.6 | — | — | — |
| 224 | Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.2 | Mistral AI | Open | 256K | 45.0 | $0.0938 | $0.25 | 68 |
| 225 | Google Gemma 2 27B | Open | 8K | 44.2 | $0.65 | $0.65 | — | |
| 226 | Amazon Amazon Nova Pro | Amazon | Proprietary | 300K | 43.9 | $0.80 | $3.20 | — |
| 227 | IBM Granite 4.0 H Small | IBM | Open | — | 43.8 | — | — | — |
| 228 | Cohere Command R+ | Cohere | Open | 128K | 43.5 | $2.50 | $10 | — |
| 229 | NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | NVIDIA | Open | — | 43.4 | — | — | — |
| 230 | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) OLMo 2 Furious 13B | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 42.9 | — | — | — |
| 231 | Meta Llama 3-70B | Meta | Open | — | 42.8 | — | — | 104 |
| 232 | Google Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Proprietary | — | 42.8 | — | — | — | |
| 233 | NVIDIA Nemotron 4 340b Instruct | NVIDIA | Open | — | 42.7 | — | — | — |
| 234 | Anthropic Claude 3.5 Haiku | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 42.7 | — | — | — |
| 235 | Cohere C4ai Aya Expanse 32b | Cohere | Open | 128K | 42.2 | — | — | — |
| 236 | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 2 0325 32b Instruct | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 42.1 | — | — | — |
| 237 | Amazon Amazon Nova Lite | Amazon | Proprietary | 300K | 42.1 | $0.06 | $0.24 | — |
| 238 | Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 42.1 | — | — | — |
| 239 | Google Gemma 3 4B | Open | 131K | 42.0 | $0.04 | $0.08 | 72 | |
| 240 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | 33K | 41.6 | $0.66 | $1 | — |
| 241 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen2-72B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 40.8 | — | — | — |
| 242 | Mistral AI Mistral Large | Mistral AI | Open | 131K | 40.7 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 243 | OpenAI GPT-4.1 nano | OpenAI | Proprietary | 1.05M | 40.5 | $0.10 | $0.40 | 135 |
| 244 |  Microsoft Phi-4 | Microsoft | Open | 128K | 40.5 | $0.07 | $0.14 | — |
| 245 | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8b | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 39.7 | — | — | — |
| 246 | Mistral AI Ministral 8B | Mistral AI | Open | 262K | 39.6 | $0.15 | $0.15 | — |
| 247 | Amazon Amazon Nova Micro | Amazon | Proprietary | 128K | 39.5 | $0.035 | $0.14 | — |
| 248 | OpenAI GPT-4o mini | OpenAI | Proprietary | 128K | 39.5 | $0.15 | $0.60 | 120 |
| 249 | OpenAI GPT-5 Nano | OpenAI | Proprietary | 400K | 39.1 | $0.05 | $0.40 | 4 |
| 250 | Cohere C4ai Aya Expanse 8b | Cohere | Open | — | 39.0 | — | — | — |
| 251 | Meta Llama 3.1-405B | Meta | Open | — | 38.9 | — | — | 78 |
| 252 | Meta Llama 4 Maverick | Meta | Open | 128K | 38.8 | $0.19 | $0.65 | 456 |
| 253 | DeepSeek Deepseek Coder v2 | DeepSeek | Open | — | 38.2 | — | — | — |
| 254 | Cohere Command R | Cohere | Open | 128K | 38.2 | $0.15 | $0.60 | — |
| 255 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-110B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 38.0 | — | — | — |
| 256 | Meta Llama 3-8B | Meta | Open | — | 37.5 | — | — | — |
| 257 | 01.AI Yi-1.5-34B | 01.AI | Open | — | 37.4 | — | — | — |
| 258 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-72B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 37.3 | — | — | — |
| 259 | Mistral AI Mistral Small 3.1 | Mistral AI | Open | 128K | 37.0 | $0.35 | $0.56 | — |
| 260 | Mistral AI Mistral | Mistral AI | Proprietary | — | 37.0 | — | — | — |
| 261 | Meta Llama 4 Scout | Meta | Open | 128K | 37.0 | $0.10 | $0.30 | 272 |
| 262 | Mistral AI Mixtral 8x22B | Mistral AI | Open | 64K | 36.9 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 263 | Google Gemma 2 2b IT | Open | — | 36.5 | — | — | — | |
| 264 | Google Gemini 1.0 Pro | Proprietary | — | 36.0 | — | — | — | |
| 265 | OpenAI gpt-oss-20b | OpenAI | Open | 131K | 35.5 | $0.018 | $0.09 | 96 |
| 266 | IBM Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | IBM | Open | — | 35.5 | — | — | — |
| 267 | Meta Llama 3.1-70B | Meta | Open | 128K | 35.4 | $0.40 | $0.40 | — |
| 268 | OpenAI GPT-4 | OpenAI | Proprietary | 8K | 34.9 | $30 | $60 | — |
| 269 | Microsoft Wizardlm 70b | Microsoft | Open | — | 34.8 | — | — | — |
| 270 | Mistral AI Mixtral 8x7B | Mistral AI | Open | 32K | 34.2 | $0.70 | $0.70 | — |
| 271 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-32B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 34.2 | — | — | — |
| 272 | Microsoft Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | Microsoft | Open | — | 34.1 | — | — | — |
| 273 | 01.AI Yi-34B | 01.AI | Open | — | 34.1 | — | — | — |
| 274 | IBM Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | IBM | Open | — | 34.1 | — | — | — |
| 275 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-14B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 33.6 | — | — | — |
| 276 |  Databricks DBRX | Databricks | Open | — | 33.6 | — | — | — |
| 277 | Meta Codellama 70b Instruct | Meta | Open | — | 33.4 | — | — | — |
| 278 | Mistral AI Pixtral Large | Mistral AI | Open | 128K | 32.9 | $2 | $6 | — |
| 279 | Meta Llama 2-70B | Meta | Open | — | 32.3 | — | — | — |
| 280 | Mistral AI Mistral Small 3 | Mistral AI | Open | 33K | 32.2 | $0.05 | $0.08 | — |
| 281 | Google Gemma 2 9B | Open | — | 32.1 | — | — | — | |
| 282 | DeepSeek DeepSeek LLM 67B | DeepSeek | Open | — | 31.6 | — | — | — |
| 283 | NVIDIA Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat | NVIDIA | Open | — | 31.6 | — | — | — |
| 284 | Microsoft Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Microsoft | Open | — | 31.1 | — | — | — |
| 285 | IBM Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | IBM | Open | — | 31.1 | — | — | — |
| 286 | Mistral AI Mistral 7B | Mistral AI | Open | 8K | 30.7 | $0.25 | $0.25 | — |
| 287 | Microsoft Wizardlm 13b | Microsoft | Open | — | 30.5 | — | — | — |
| 288 | Google Gemma 1.1 7b IT | Open | — | 30.4 | — | — | — | |
| 289 | Meta Llama 2-13B | Meta | Open | — | 29.8 | — | — | — |
| 290 | Meta Llama 3.1-8B | Meta | Open | 128K | 29.7 | $0.05 | $0.08 | — |
| 291 | Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku | Anthropic | Proprietary | — | 29.7 | — | — | 41 |
| 292 | IBM Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | IBM | Open | — | 29.6 | — | — | — |
| 293 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5-7B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 29.6 | — | — | — |
| 294 | Microsoft Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 | Microsoft | Open | — | 29.6 | — | — | — |
| 295 |  Technology Innovation Institute Falcon-180B | Technology Innovation Institute | Open | — | 29.1 | — | — | — |
| 296 | Mistral AI Mistral Nemo | Mistral AI | Open | 128K | 28.5 | $0.15 | $0.15 | — |
| 297 | Meta Codellama 34b Instruct | Meta | Open | — | 28.2 | — | — | — |
| 298 | Meta Llama 2-7B | Meta | Open | — | 28.0 | — | — | — |
| 299 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen-14B | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 27.6 | — | — | — |
| 300 | Microsoft Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | Microsoft | Open | — | 27.6 | — | — | — |
| 301 | Microsoft Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct | Microsoft | Open | — | 27.1 | — | — | — |
| 302 | Google Gemma 7B | Open | — | 27.1 | — | — | — | |
| 303 | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Olmo 7b Instruct | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | Open | — | 25.8 | — | — | — |
| 304 | Google Palm 2 | Proprietary | — | 25.6 | — | — | — | |
| 305 | OpenAI GPT-3.5-turbo | OpenAI | Proprietary | 16K | 25.3 | $0.50 | $1.50 | — |
| 306 | Google Gemma 1.1 2b IT | Open | — | 25.1 | — | — | — | |
| 307 | Meta Llama 3.2 3B | Meta | Open | 131K | 24.7 | $0.05 | $0.33 | — |
| 308 | Google Gemma 2B | Open | — | 24.0 | — | — | — | |
| 309 | Alibaba (Qwen) Qwen1.5 4b Chat | Alibaba (Qwen) | Open | — | 23.8 | — | — | — |
| 310 | Meta Llama 3.2 1B | Meta | Open | 60K | 21.3 | $0.027 | $0.20 | — |
| 311 | Databricks Dolly 2.0-12b | Databricks | Open | — | 15.2 | — | — | — |
| 312 | Meta Llama 13b | Meta | Open | — | 13.8 | — | — | — |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best AI model for writing?
As of October 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads the Noometry writing & preference ranking with a score of 79.2, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 79.2. The two are close enough that new results could swap them.
What are the top 5 in this ranking?
Claude Opus 5, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Kimi K3, Claude Fable 5, in that order, as of October 2026.
How is this list ranked?
By the category score, which is fitted from every public benchmark result and adjusted for how hard each benchmark is. Models need several independent results to be ranked.