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What is the best AI for writing?

Claude Opus 5.5 (High) by Anthropic is the best writing pick right now, and MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the best open option.

Winner
Claude Opus 5.5High
Creative writing score: 1534 · $8 blended per 1M tokens
Best open
MiMo-V2.6-ProOPEN
Creative writing score: 1464 · $0.54 blended per 1M tokens
Best under $1
MiMo-V2.6-ProOPEN
Creative writing score: 1464 · $0.54 blended per 1M tokens

Top 10 for writing

Creative writing score, a chess-style rating from blind human votes.

1Claude Opus 5.5High15342Gemini 4 CarbonHigh15313Gemini 4 ArgonHigh15274Claude Fable 5.1Max15125Claude Opus 4.6High15056Claude Opus 5Max14957Claude Fable 5High14938Gemini 3.8 FlashHigh14919Muse WonderMax148810Claude Opus 5High1488

Based on Arena text arena, creative writing prompts. People compare two anonymous answers and pick the better one. Bars start at 1450. 417 models have data for this task.

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