Best AI Models for Creative Writing

9 models ranked by creative writing quality — evaluated on fiction, poetry, narrative craft, and real user creative prompts.

# Model Writing Avg Price
1 Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic 90.0 $15.00
2 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 88.0 $1.75
3 Claude Opus 4 Anthropic 86.0 $15.00
4 Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic 84.0 $3.00
5 Gemini 2.5 Pro Google 83.5 $1.25
6 GPT-4o (2024-05-13) OpenAI 80.0 $5.00
7 Mistral Large OSS Mistral 80.0 $2.00
8 Llama 4 Maverick OSS Meta 78.0 $0.15
9 DeepSeek R1 OSS DeepSeek 70.0 $0.70

About Creative Writing Benchmarks

Creative Writing Bench uses expert judges to evaluate fiction, poetry, and narrative quality across multiple dimensions including originality, coherence, style, and emotional impact. WildBench Creative evaluates models on real user creative prompts from the wild, judged by GPT-4 for quality and faithfulness to instructions.

Creative writing quality is inherently subjective. These benchmarks capture one dimension of writing ability — your own preferences may differ.