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Best AI APIs for writing
Models you can call through a paid API, ranked from public benchmarks, with their price in this task’s unit.
STop ranked: Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic), 1,519 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control).37 options listed · data verified 19 Oct 2026
Ranked list
| Tier | Name | Approach | Runs | Rated by | Price | Skill | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S |  Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | Models | Cloud | 1,519 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $8/M tokens | — | |
| S |  Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | Models | Cloud | 1,516 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $4/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| S | Gemini 3.8 Flash Google | Models | Cloud | 1,487 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $1.5/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| S | Muse Wonder Meta | Models | Cloud | 1,485 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $8/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| S | Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic | Models | Cloud | 1,485 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $20/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| S | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) Google | Models | Cloud | 1,481 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $4.5/M tokens | — | |
| A | Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba (Qwen) | Models | Cloud | 1,469 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $3/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| A | Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic | Models | Cloud | 1,465 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $4/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| A |  Kimi K3Moonshot AI | Models | Local | 1,461 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~1600 GB VRAM | — | |
| A | Muse Spark 1.3 Meta | Models | Cloud | 1,461 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $2/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| A |  GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | Models | Cloud | 1,458 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $4/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| A |  GLM-5.3Z.ai | Models | Local | 1,453 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~425 GB VRAM | — | |
| A | GPT-6 Astra OpenAI | Models | Cloud | 1,450 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $20/M tokens | — | vs Claude Opus 5.5 |
| A |  DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813DeepSeek | Models | Local | 1,446 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~920 GB VRAM | — | |
| A |  MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi | Models | Local | 1,445 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~585 GB VRAM | — | |
| A | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 DeepSeek | Models | Local | 1,440 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~320 GB VRAM | — | |
| A | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google | Models | Cloud | 1,436 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $0.85/M tokens | — | |
| A | GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | Models | Local | 1,434 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~185 GB VRAM | — | |
| A |  Qwen3.7-PlusAlibaba (Qwen) | Models | Cloud | 1,432 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $0.56/M tokens | — | |
| A |  Grok 4.7xAI | Models | Cloud | 1,424 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $3/M tokens | — | |
| B |  Gemma 4 (31B)Google DeepMind | Models | Local | 1,419 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~19 GB VRAM | — | |
| B | GPT-6 Luna OpenAI | Models | Cloud | 1,410 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $0.2/M tokens | — | |
| B |  GLM-5V-TurboZ.ai | Models | Cloud | 1,407 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $1.9/M tokens | — | |
| B |  MiniMax-M3MiniMax | Models | Local | 1,405 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~245 GB VRAM | — | |
| B |  Step 5 PreviewStepFun | Models | Local | 1,403 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~346 GB VRAM | — | |
| B |  Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | Models | Local | 1,400 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~75 GB VRAM | — | |
| B | MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi | Models | Local | 1,390 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~178 GB VRAM | — | |
| B |  InklingThinking Machines Lab | Models | Local | 1,381 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~557 GB VRAM | — | |
| B |  Mistral Large 4 (preview)Mistral AI | Models | Cloud | 1,368 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | $2.06/M tokens | — | |
| B |  Qwen3.8-27BAlibaba (Qwen) | Models | Local | 1,366 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~17 GB VRAM | — | |
| B |  Muse Glimmer 30BMeta | Models | Local | 1,364 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~19 GB VRAM | — | |
| C | Inkling Small Thinking Machines Lab | Models | Local | 1,314 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~159 GB VRAM | — | |
| C |  Llama 4 MaverickMeta | Models | Local | 1,307 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~230 GB VRAM | — | |
| C |  gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | Models | Local | 1,279 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~80 GB VRAM | — | |
| C | Aion 3.5 AionLabs | Models | Cloud | 1,929 on EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 | $3.75/M tokens | — | |
| C | gpt-oss-20b OpenAI | Models | Local | 1,240 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) | ~16 GB VRAM | — | |
| C | Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Alibaba (Qwen) | Models | Local | 1,843 on EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 | ~1370 GB VRAM | — |
Tiers come only from public benchmarks (LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control), EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3); tools without a result of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer. How we rank.