Best AI for Creative Writing from Images: Vision Arena

Vision Arena✍️Creative Writing

View overall rankings across multimodal AI models capable of reasoning over visual inputs.

Oct 2, 2026

72,271 votes

95 models

	Rank Spread
1	116	gemini-3-pro Google · Proprietary	1324±19	1,097	$2 / $12	1M
2	118	claude-fable-5-high Anthropic · Proprietary	1319±19	1,041	$10 / $50	1M
3	123	claude-opus-4-6-high Anthropic · Proprietary	1309±17	1,405	$5 / $25	1M
4	125	gemini-3.1-pro-preview Google · Proprietary	1301±11	3,120	$1 / $6	1M
5	127	claude-opus-4-7-high Anthropic · Proprietary	1301±16	1,454	$5 / $25	1M
6	143	muse-spark Meta · Proprietary	1299±33	345	N/A	N/A
7	126	gemini-3-flash Google · Proprietary	1299±12	2,974	$0.50 / $3	1M
8	128	claude-opus-4-6 Anthropic · Proprietary	1297±15	1,736	$5 / $25	1M
9	131	claude-opus-4-7 Anthropic · Proprietary	1296±17	1,393	$5 / $25	1M
10	140	claude-opus-4-8-high Anthropic · Proprietary	1289±17	1,393	$5 / $25	1M
11	143	qwen3.8-max Alibaba · Proprietary	1289±22	745	$2 / $6	1M
12	141	gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh OpenAI · Proprietary	1288±21	946	$4 / $20	N/A
13	152	claude-fable-5.1-max Anthropic · Proprietary	1287±30	447	$10 / $50	1M
14	141	gemini-3.5-flash-medium Google · Proprietary	1287±20	982	$0.75 / $4.50	1M
15	153	gpt-6-astra-max OpenAI · Proprietary	1285±34	340	N/A	N/A
16	340	gpt-5.5-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1285±15	1,882	$5 / $30	1.1M
17	155	gemini-3.7-flash-high Google · Proprietary	1283±33	364	$0.75 / $3.75	1M
18	340	gemini-3-flash (thinking-minimal) Google · Proprietary	1283±12	2,509	$0.50 / $3	1M
19	346	claude-opus-4-8 Anthropic · Proprietary	1279±17	1,394	$5 / $25	1M
20	349	claude-opus-5-high Anthropic · Proprietary	1277±17	1,444	$5 / $25	1M
21	352	grok-4.5 SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1276±21	930	$2 / $6	500K
22	258	gpt-5.5-instant OpenAI · Proprietary	1270±32	362	$5 / $30	1.1M
23	259	muse-spark-1.3-max Meta · Proprietary	1270±32	360	N/A	N/A
24	753	claude-sonnet-4-6 Anthropic · Proprietary	1268±15	1,702	$1.50 / $7.50	1M
25	853	gpt-5.5 OpenAI · Proprietary	1267±14	1,985	$5 / $30	1.1M
26	656	gemini-3.5-flash-high Google · Proprietary	1266±20	1,039	$0.75 / $4.50	1M
27	853	grok-4.20-multi-agent-beta-0309 SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1266±15	1,690	$1.25 / $2.50	1M
28	953	gemma-4-31b Google · Apache 2.0	1266±12	2,593	$0.99 / $1.49	131.1K
29	855	grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1264±15	1,708	$1.25 / $2.50	1M
30	459	grok-4.6-high SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1264±26	573	$2 / $6	500K
31	957	gpt-5.4-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1260±15	1,945	$2.50 / $15	1.1M
32	563	glm-5.3-flash Z.ai · MIT	1259±28	493	$0.06 / $0.20	1M
33	957	gpt-5.4 OpenAI · Proprietary	1258±16	1,446	$1.25 / $7.50	1.1M
34	959	gpt-5.6-luna-xhigh OpenAI · Proprietary	1257±21	912	$0.20 / $1.20	N/A
35	959	gpt-5.1 OpenAI · Proprietary	1257±21	937	$0.63 / $5	400K
36	959	gpt-5.6-terra-xhigh OpenAI · Proprietary	1257±22	846	$2 / $12	N/A
37	472	gemini-3.8-flash-high Google · Proprietary	1255±36	284	$0.75 / $3.75	1M
38	959	kimi-k2.6 Moonshot · Modified MIT	1254±20	923	$0.95 / $4	262.1K
39	964	gemini-3.5-flash-lite Google · Proprietary	1252±23	722	$0.15 / $1.25	1M
40	1658	gemini-2.5-pro Google · Proprietary	1251±12	3,683	$1.25 / $10	1M
41	1464	chatgpt-4o-latest-20250326 OpenAI · Proprietary	1249±18	1,245	$5 / $15	128K
42	1661	grok-4.3 SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1248±15	1,865	$1.25 / $2.50	1M
43	1763	kimi-k2.5-thinking Moonshot · Modified MIT	1247±14	1,775	$0.60 / $3	N/A
44	975	gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025 Google · Proprietary	1246±33	318	$0.30 / $2.50	1M
45	1861	qwen3.5-397b-a17b Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1246±13	2,200	$0.55 / $3.50	262.1K
46	1270	gemini-3.6-flash-high Google · Proprietary	1246±24	650	$0.75 / $3.75	1M
47	1668	qwen3.7-plus Alibaba · Proprietary	1243±20	983	$0.32 / $1.28	1M
48	1770	claude-sonnet-5-high Anthropic · Proprietary	1240±20	1,023	$2 / $10	1M
49	2569	gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview Google · Proprietary	1236±14	1,885	$0.25 / $1.50	1M
50	1875	gpt-5.1-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1236±22	793	$0.63 / $5	400K
51	2075	gpt-5.2-chat-latest-20260210 OpenAI · Proprietary	1235±19	1,070	$1.75 / $14	128K
52	2774	gemma-4-26b-a4b Google · Apache 2.0	1232±16	1,497	N/A	N/A
53	1879	dola-seed-2.0-pro Bytedance · Proprietary	1231±27	543	N/A	N/A
54	2577	muse-spark-1.1 Meta · Proprietary	1231±20	976	$1.25 / $4.25	1M
55	1785	kimi-k2.5-instant Moonshot · Modified MIT	1226±34	286	$0.45 / $2.25	262.1K
56	3077	gpt-5.4-mini-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1226±16	1,628	$0.75 / $4.50	400K
57	2879	grok-4-1-fast-reasoning SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1225±21	881	$0.20 / $0.50	128K
58	1487	mimo-v2.6-flash Xiaomi · MIT	1224±43	209	$0.14 / $0.28	1.1M
59	3279	gpt-5.2 OpenAI · Proprietary	1220±17	1,292	$0.88 / $7	400K
60	4079	gemini-2.5-flash Google · Proprietary	1220±13	2,919	$0.30 / $2.50	1M
61	3884	gpt-4.1-2025-04-14 OpenAI · Proprietary	1215±20	1,283	$2 / $8	1M
62	4284	minimax-m3 MiniMax · MiniMax Community License	1213±18	1,213	$0.30 / $1.20	524.3K
63	4479	glm-5v-turbo Z.ai · Proprietary	1213±12	2,823	$1.20 / $4	202.8K
64	4483	mimo-v2.5 Xiaomi · MIT	1212±15	1,808	$0.14 / $0.28	1.1M
65	3888	ernie-5.0-preview-1220 Baidu · Proprietary	1205±29	482	N/A	N/A
66	4487	gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14 OpenAI · Proprietary	1204±21	1,192	$0.40 / $1.60	1M
67	4587	grok-4-0709 SpaceXAI · Proprietary	1203±20	1,227	$1.25 / $2.50	256K
68	4885	gpt-5.2-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1203±17	1,331	$0.88 / $7	400K
69	4687	gpt-5-chat OpenAI · Proprietary	1202±19	1,297	$5 / $30	N/A
70	4888	qwen3.5-122b-a10b Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1200±21	866	$0.26 / $2.08	262.1K
71	4091	mistral-medium-3.5 Mistral · Modified MIT	1199±33	349	$0.75 / $3.75	262.1K
72	5386	qwen3.5-27b Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1198±14	2,014	$0.26 / $2.60	262.1K
73	4989	mistral-large-3 Mistral · Apache 2.0	1194±23	761	$0.50 / $1.50	N/A
74	5389	qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1192±20	976	$0.29 / $1.15	262.1K
75	5589	o3-2025-04-16 OpenAI · Proprietary	1191±18	1,584	$2 / $8	200K
76	5091	qwen3.8-27b Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1191±25	597	$0.40 / $3	262.1K
77	6091	mistral-medium-2508 Mistral · Proprietary	1182±17	1,550	$0.40 / $2	131.1K
78	4494	qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking Alibaba · Apache 2.0	1180±44	178	$0.40 / $4	131.1K
79	4994	gemini-2.0-flash-001 Google · Proprietary	1179±39	250	$0.10 / $0.40	1M
80	6091	gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17-thinking Google · Proprietary	1179±21	1,188	$0.10 / $0.40	1M
81	5594	mistral-small-2506 Mistral · Apache 2.0	1178±29	466	$0.10 / $0.30	32K
82	6093	mimo-v2-omni Xiaomi · Proprietary	1174±24	686	$0.44 / $2.20	256K
83	6194	Inkling Small Thinky · Apache 2.0	1169±26	578	$0.45 / $1.20	524.3K
84	6094	gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025-no-thinking Google · Proprietary	1169±31	344	$0.10 / $0.40	1M
85	6394	gemma-3-27b-it Google · Gemma	1166±26	627	$0.08 / $0.45	131.1K
86	6594	gpt-5-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1166±19	1,520	$0.63 / $5	400K
87	6694	o4-mini-2025-04-16 OpenAI · Proprietary	1163±20	1,260	$1.10 / $4.40	200K
88	7294	gpt-5.4-nano-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1156±17	1,530	$0.20 / $1.25	400K
89	7595	gpt-5-mini-high OpenAI · Proprietary	1148±22	1,017	$0.13 / $1	400K
90	7595	mistral-medium-2505 Mistral · Proprietary	1140±28	480	$0.40 / $2	131.1K
91	7095	llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct Meta · Llama	1138±41	238	$0.05 / $0.10	16.4K
92	7995	hunyuan-vision-1.5-thinking Tencent · Proprietary	1111±43	210	N/A	N/A
93	8095	glm-4.6v Z.ai · MIT	1109±41	241	$0.30 / $0.90	131.1K
94	8995	mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-2503 Mistral · Apache 2.0	1109±25	771	$0.10 / $0.30	32K
95	7995	llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct Meta · Llama 4	1108±43	214	$0.63 / $1.80	131.1K

Vision Arena✍️Creative Writing

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