/best/writingupdated August 2026137 models evaluated
Best AI for writing
Long-form drafting, rewriting, tone-matching, and editorial work.
Writing is where models diverge most on taste. Two models can score identically on instruction-following and produce prose with completely different voice — one tight and readable, the other syrupy and evasive. Benchmark scores alone won't tell you which model matches your brand.
What matters: rhetorical range, willingness to cut, instruction adherence at the paragraph level, and refusal discipline. Good models don't moralize at the drop of a hat. We weight side-by-side human preference strongly here, along with tone consistency across long documents.
Our writing rank weights writing quality (2.5×), instruction-following (1.5×), and reasoning (0.5×). For editorial work at scale, instruction-following is the main differentiator — models that silently ignore style constraints waste editorial time.
Full rankings
All 137 models, scored for writing
| # | Model | Provider | Task score | $/in | $/out | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.130 | 1M |
| 02 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.20 | 1.1M |
| 03 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 04 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.1M |
| 05 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.0M |
| 06 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 07 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 08 | Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 09 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.089 | $0.177 | 1.0M |
| 10 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.3M |
| 11 | MiMo-V2.5 | XXiaomi | 4.50/5.0 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.1M |
| 12 | GLM-4.7 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.400 | 203K |
| 13 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super | NNVIDIA | 4.50/5.0 | $0.085 | $0.400 | 1M |
| 14 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | MMinimax | 4.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 15 | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | TThinkingmachines | 4.50/5.0 | $0.450 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 16 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.320 | $1.28 | 1M |
| 17 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.790 | $1.58 | 1.0M |
| 18 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.325 | $1.95 | 1M |
| 19 | R1 0528 | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.15 | 164K |
| 20 | Devstral 2 2512 | MMistral | 4.50/5.0 | $0.440 | $2.20 | 262K |
| 21 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 22 | R1 | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.700 | $2.50 | 64K |
| 23 | Grok 4.3 | XXAI | 4.50/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| 24 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| 25 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.320 | $3.20 | 262K |
| 26 | Kimi K2.7 Code | MMoonshot AI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.670 | $3.40 | 262K |
| 27 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra | NNVIDIA | 4.50/5.0 | $0.600 | $3.60 | 512K |
| 28 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 | ZZhipu AI | 4.50/5.0 | $1.19 | $3.74 | 1.0M |
| 29 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | MMoonshotAI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.950 | $4.00 | 262K |
| 30 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.1 | MMeta | 4.50/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 31 | Qwen 3.7 Max | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $1.48 | $4.42 | 1M |
| 32 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M |
| 33 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $1.03 | $6.16 | 262K |
| 34 | Grok 4.5 | XXAI | 4.50/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 35 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| 36 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | AAnthropic | 4.50/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M |
| 37 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| 38 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.1M |
| 39 | GPT-5.2 | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K |
| 40 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 41 | Claude Opus 5 | AAnthropic | 4.50/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 42 | Claude Opus 4.7 | AAnthropic | 4.50/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 43 | GPT-5.5 | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 44 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 4.50/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 45 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 46 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.037 | $0.170 | 131K |
| 47 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 48 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 49 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.048 | $0.193 | 262K |
| 50 | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 51 | Gemma 4 31B | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.340 | 262K |
| 52 | DeepSeek V3.2 | DDeepSeek | 4.00/5.0 | $0.260 | $0.380 | 164K |
| 53 | Grok 4.1 Fast | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.500 | 2M |
| 54 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.550 | 262K |
| 55 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 4.00/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 56 | Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking | AArcee-ai | 4.00/5.0 | $0.220 | $0.850 | 262K |
| 57 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | XXiaomi | 4.00/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.1M |
| 58 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 59 | Nex-N2-Pro | NNex AGI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 60 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2 | MMinimax | 4.00/5.0 | $0.255 | $1.02 | 205K |
| 61 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.188 | $1.13 | 1M |
| 62 | GPT-5.4 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.25 | 400K |
| 63 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.25 | 262K |
| 64 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 65 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 66 | DeepSeek V3.1 | DDeepSeek | 4.00/5.0 | $0.550 | $1.65 | 164K |
| 67 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.80 | 1M |
| 68 | GPT-5 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 400K |
| 69 | Mistral Medium 3.1 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 131K |
| 70 | xAI: Grok Build 0.1 | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K |
| 71 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 72 | Grok 4.20 | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M |
| 73 | Thinking Machines: Inkling | TThinkingmachines | 4.00/5.0 | $0.950 | $4.05 | 1.0M |
| 74 | GPT-5.4 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $4.50 | 400K |
| 75 | o4 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K |
| 76 | Grok 4.6 | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 77 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K |
| 78 | GPT-4.1 | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M |
| 79 | o3 | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K |
| 80 | GPT-5 | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 81 | GPT-5.1 | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 82 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | GGoogle | 4.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M |
| 83 | GPT-5.4 | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 84 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M |
| 85 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 | AAnthropic | 4.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 86 | Claude Opus 4.6 | AAnthropic | 4.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 87 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash | IInclusionai | 3.50/5.0 | $0.010 | $0.030 | 262K |
| 88 | IBM: Granite 4.1 8B | IIbm-granite | 3.50/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 89 | Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 | PPoolside | 3.50/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.120 | 262K |
| 90 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash | XXiaomi | 3.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 91 | StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash | SStepfun | 3.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 92 | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GGoogle | 3.50/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.340 | 262K |
| 93 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | BBytedance-seed | 3.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 262K |
| 94 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 3.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 95 | Grok 3 Mini | XXAI | 3.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.500 | 131K |
| 96 | Mistral Small 4 | MMistral | 3.50/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 262K |
| 97 | inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 3.50/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 98 | Inception: Mercury 2 | IInception | 3.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.750 | 128K |
| 99 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DDeepSeek | 3.50/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.00 | 164K |
| 100 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 | MMinimax | 3.50/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.08 | 205K |
| 101 | StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash | SStepfun | 3.50/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.15 | 262K |
| 102 | Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | KKwaipilot | 3.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 262K |
| 103 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 | MMinimax | 3.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 104 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | MMinimax | 3.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 105 | GPT-4.1 Mini | OOpenAI | 3.50/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M |
| 106 | GLM-4.7 | ZZhipu AI | 3.50/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.75 | 205K |
| 107 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | BBytedance-seed | 3.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 108 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 | BBytedance-seed | 3.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 109 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code | BBytedance-seed | 3.50/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 262K |
| 110 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | AAnthropic | 3.50/5.0 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K |
| 111 | Grok 4 | XXAI | 3.50/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 256K |
| 112 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | OOpenAI | 3.00/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.130 | 131K |
| 113 | Poolside Laguna S 2.1 | PPoolside | 3.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.180 | 1.0M |
| 114 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | MMistral | 3.00/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.200 | 131K |
| 115 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash | BBytedance-seed | 3.00/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 116 | Llama 4 Scout | MMeta | 3.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 1.3M |
| 117 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | MMeta | 3.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.320 | 131K |
| 118 | GPT-5 Nano | OOpenAI | 3.00/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K |
| 119 | GPT-4.1 Nano | OOpenAI | 3.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 120 | KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 3.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 256K |
| 121 | Llama 4 Maverick | MMeta | 3.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.800 | 1.0M |
| 122 | MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | MMinimax | 3.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.10 | 1.0M |
| 123 | Grok Code Fast 1 | XXAI | 3.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.50 | 256K |
| 124 | Mistral Large 3 2512 | MMistral | 3.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $1.50 | 262K |
| 125 | MiniMax: MiniMax M1 | MMinimax | 3.00/5.0 | $0.550 | $2.20 | 1M |
| 126 | GPT-4o | OOpenAI | 3.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K |
| 127 | Grok 3 | XXAI | 3.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 131K |
| 128 | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | IIbm-granite | 2.50/5.0 | $0.017 | $0.112 | 131K |
| 129 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NNVIDIA | 2.50/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 130 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | QQwen | 2.50/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.280 | 262K |
| 131 | GPT-4o-mini | OOpenAI | 2.50/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128K |
| 132 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | MMistral | 2.50/5.0 | $0.351 | $0.555 | 128K |
| 133 | Codestral 2508 | MMistral | 2.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.900 | 256K |
| 134 | Seed 2.1 Turbo | BByteDance | 2.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.50 | 262K |
| 135 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her | MMinimax | 1.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 66K |
| 136 | KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 0.50/5.0 | $0.740 | $2.96 | 256K |
| 137 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max | QQwen | 0.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M |
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