Best LLM for Creative Writing: Text Arena Rankings

Text Arena✍️Creative Writing

View overall rankings across various AI models in text-to-text tasks across math, coding, creative writing, and other open-ended domains.

Oct 8, 2026

1,393,561 votes

412 models

	Rank Spread
28	1355	kimi-k3-max Moonshot · Kimi K3 license	1460±8	6,141	N/A	N/A
70	4089	kimi-k2.6 Moonshot · Modified MIT	1433±8	6,358	$0.95 / $4	262.1K
79	5798	kimi-k2.5-thinking Moonshot · Modified MIT	1423±6	12,300	$0.60 / $3	N/A
121	86163	kimi-k2.5-instant Moonshot · Modified MIT	1391±16	1,325	$0.50 / $2.50	262.1K
124	98149	kimi-k2-thinking-turbo Moonshot · Modified MIT	1391±7	9,550	$0.57 / $2.30	131.1K
138	98172	kimi-k2-0905-preview Moonshot · Modified MIT	1383±15	1,483	$0.60 / $2.50	262.1K
155	123178	kimi-k2-0711-preview Moonshot · Modified MIT	1371±10	3,412	$0.60 / $2.50	131.1K

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