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LMArena Text - Occupational: Writing, Literature & Language
Crowd-voted, style-controlled Elo on prompts from writing/editing, literature and language work (drafting, rewriting, editing, translation-style tasks).
Elo ratingHigher is betterCounts toward:Weights: Writing & creativity ×1The test's websiteOfficial page ↗
Measured by independent testersIndependent Reported by the makerVendor-reported
| Thinking levelSetting | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 4 Argon | Google (Gemini / DeepMind) | 1523 | Highgemini-4-argon-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | 1519 | Highclaude-opus-5.5-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | 1509 | Highclaude-fable-5-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.6 | Anthropic | 1500 | Highclaude-opus-4-6-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash | Google (Gemini / DeepMind) | 1498 | Highgemini-3.7-flash-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.7 | Anthropic | 1497 | Highclaude-opus-4-7-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 7 | Claude Fable 5.1 | Anthropic | 1493 | Maxclaude-fable-5.1-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 8 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Google (Gemini / DeepMind) | 1486 | Highgemini-3.8-flash-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 5 | Anthropic | 1482 | Highclaude-opus-5-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 10 | GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI | 1482 | Extra highgpt-5.6-sol-xhigh | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 11 | Gemini 3 Pro | Google (Gemini / DeepMind) | 1481 | Defaultgemini-3-pro | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 12 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) | Google (Gemini / DeepMind) | 1480 | Defaultgemini-3.1-pro-preview | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 13 | Kimi K3 | Moonshot AI (Kimi) | 1476 | Maxkimi-k3-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 14 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Google (Gemini / DeepMind) | 1475 | Highgemini-3.6-flash-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 15 | Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic | 1475 | Highclaude-opus-4-8-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 16 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Google (Gemini / DeepMind) | 1473 | Highgemini-3.5-flash-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 17 | Qwen3.8 Max (0803) | Qwen (Alibaba) | 1472 | Defaultqwen3.8-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 18 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Meta (Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse) | 1471 | Maxmuse-spark-1.3-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 19 | GLM-5.3 | Z.ai (Zhipu) | 1469 | Maxglm-5.3-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 20 | GPT-6 Astra | OpenAI | 1465 | Maxgpt-6-astra-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 21 | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | Xiaomi MiMo | 1457 | Defaultmimo-v2.6-pro | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 22 | DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) | DeepSeek | 1454 | Highdeepseek-v4-pro-high-20260813 | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 23 | Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | 1452 | Highclaude-sonnet-5-high | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 24 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek | 1451 | Maxdeepseek-v4.1-flash-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 25 | GPT-6 Sol | OpenAI | 1440 | Maxgpt-6-sol-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 26 | Grok 4.7 | SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) | 1427 | Extra highgrok-4.7-xhigh | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |
| 27 | GPT-6 Luna | OpenAI | 1421 | Maxgpt-6-luna-max | Independent testIndependentLMArena ↗ | — | 30 Sep 2026 |