Chatbot Arena (Text - Creative Writing): leaderboard
The arena.ai text board restricted to battles whose prompt asks for imaginative or artistic composition rather than factual reporting or analysis, a tag applied by a language model classifier. Voters compare two anonymous replies to one prompt and pick the better one. The rating is refit over this subset of votes alone, and higher is better.
Metric: Arena Score. Source: arena.ai. 412 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 4 Argon (High) | 1519 | #8 (Gemini 4 Argon) |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5 (High) | 1517 | #3 (Claude Opus 5.5) |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5 (High) | 1502 | #16 (Claude Fable 5) |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.6 (High) | 1500 | #63 (Claude Opus 4.6) |
| 5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash (High) | 1492 | #23 (Gemini 3.7 Flash) |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.7 (High) | 1489 | #49 (Claude Opus 4.7) |
| 7 | Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) | 1487 | #21 (Gemini 3.8 Flash) |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro | 1485 | #80 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 1483 | #49 |
| 10 | Claude Fable 5.1 (Max) | 1483 | #9 (Claude Fable 5.1) |
| 11 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) | 1481 | #58 |
| 12 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 1479 | #63 |
| 13 | Claude Opus 5 (Max) | 1471 | #12 (Claude Opus 5) |
| 14 | Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) | 1471 | #51 (Gemini 3.6 Flash) |
| 15 | Claude Opus 5 (High) | 1471 | #12 (Claude Opus 5) |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=chatbot-arena-text-creative-writing · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.