Content Writing

Top picks for long-form writing and copywriting.

Updated July 2, 2026

Top picks for long-form writing and copywriting.

# Model Score AI Index Context Input / 1M Output / 1M Caps
1Anthropic: Claude Fable 5anthropic New Top Pick93.359.91M$10.00$50.00
2Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5anthropic New In-House Pick9353.41M$2.00$10.00
3Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8anthropic Top Pick In-House Pick92.355.71M$5.00$25.00
4Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgoogle89.846.51M$2.00$12.00
5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7anthropic89.453.51M$5.00$25.00
6Google: Gemini 3.5 Flashgoogle88.950.21M$1.50$9.00
7Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic85.147.21M$3.00$15.00
8Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6anthropic8343.71M$5.00$25.00
9Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5anthropic8236.41M$3.00$15.00
10Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Properplexity8211.7128K$2.00$8.00
11Mistral Small (Feb ’24)Mistral823.6$1.00$3.00
12Anthropic: Claude 3 Haikuanthropic823.9200K$0.2500$1.25
13Nova 2.0 Lite (medium)Amazon8219$0.3000$2.50
14Qwen3 4B (Reasoning)Alibaba828.4$0.1100$1.26
15Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)google8239.666K$2.00$12.00
16Meta: Llama 4 Maverickmeta-llama8214.31M$0.1500$0.6000
17Mistral: Mistral Small 4mistralai8219.6262K$0.1500$0.6000
18Qwen3.5 Omni PlusAlibaba8230.6$0.4000$4.80
19Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025google8213.11M$0.1000$0.4000
20Perplexity: Sonar Properplexity829.3200K$3.00$15.00
21Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instructnousresearch825.1131K$0.7000$0.7000
22Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)Meta826.2$1.38$1.38
23Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Non-reasoning)Upstage8210FreeFree
24Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Litegoogle826.91M$0.1000$0.4000
25Mistral: Mistral Small 3mistralai826.933K$0.0500$0.0800
26Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning)Amazon8211.8$0.3000$2.50
27Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)Alibaba8229.3$0.6000$3.60
28OpenAI: GPT-5.1openai8236.9400K$1.25$10.00
29Meta: Llama 4 Scoutmeta-llama821010M$0.1000$0.3000
30MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7minimax8238.1205K$0.1800$0.7200
31Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibaba8219$0.1000$0.8000
32StepFun: Step 3.7 Flashstepfun8229.7256K$0.2000$1.15
33Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingqwen8227.6131K$0.2600$2.60
34Muse SparkMeta8243.1FreeFree
35Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Reasoning)Upstage8212.5FreeFree
36AllenAI: Molmo2 8Ballenai82237K$0.2000$0.2000
37DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32Bdeepseek8211128K$0.2900$0.2900
38Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instructmistralai822.433K$0.5400$0.5400
39Nova 2.0 Omni (Non-reasoning)Amazon8210.5$0.3000$2.50
40Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0amazon8212.71M$2.50$12.50
41Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instructqwen827.5128K$0.2000$0.6000
42Mistral Large 2407mistralai827.3131K$2.00$6.00
43NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Supernvidia8225.41M$0.0850$0.4000
44Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Previewqwen8240262K$1.04$6.24
45MiniMax: MiniMax M3minimax8244.41M$0.3000$1.20
46Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructqwen8214.3262K$0.2000$0.8800
47Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Litegoogle8212.31M$0.0750$0.3000
48OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06)openai829.6128K$2.50$10.00
49Ministral 3 8BMistral829$0.1500$0.1500
50Llama 3.1 Tulu3 405BAllen Institute for AI828.3FreeFree
#1NewTop Pick93.3
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5anthropic
AI 59.91M ctx$10.00/M in
#2NewIn-House Pick93
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5anthropic
AI 53.41M ctx$2.00/M in
#3Top PickIn-House Pick92.3
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8anthropic
AI 55.71M ctx$5.00/M in
#489.8
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgoogle
AI 46.51M ctx$2.00/M in
#589.4
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7anthropic
AI 53.51M ctx$5.00/M in
#688.9
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flashgoogle
AI 50.21M ctx$1.50/M in
#785.1
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic
AI 47.21M ctx$3.00/M in
#883
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6anthropic
AI 43.71M ctx$5.00/M in
#982
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5anthropic
AI 36.41M ctx$3.00/M in
#1082
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Properplexity
AI 11.7128K ctx$2.00/M in
#1182
Mistral Small (Feb ’24)Mistral
AI 3.6$1.00/M in
#1282
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haikuanthropic
AI 3.9200K ctx$0.2500/M in
#1382
Nova 2.0 Lite (medium)Amazon
AI 19$0.3000/M in
#1482
Qwen3 4B (Reasoning)Alibaba
AI 8.4$0.1100/M in
#1582
Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)google
AI 39.666K ctx$2.00/M in
#1682
Meta: Llama 4 Maverickmeta-llama
AI 14.31M ctx$0.1500/M in
#1782
Mistral: Mistral Small 4mistralai
AI 19.6262K ctx$0.1500/M in
#1882
Qwen3.5 Omni PlusAlibaba
AI 30.6$0.4000/M in
#1982
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025google
AI 13.11M ctx$0.1000/M in
#2082
Perplexity: Sonar Properplexity
AI 9.3200K ctx$3.00/M in
#2182
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instructnousresearch
AI 5.1131K ctx$0.7000/M in
#2282
Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)Meta
AI 6.2$1.38/M in
#2382
Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Non-reasoning)Upstage
AI 10Free/M in
#2482
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Litegoogle
AI 6.91M ctx$0.1000/M in
#2582
Mistral: Mistral Small 3mistralai
AI 6.933K ctx$0.0500/M in
#2682
Nova 2.0 Lite (Non-reasoning)Amazon
AI 11.8$0.3000/M in
#2782
Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)Alibaba
AI 29.3$0.6000/M in
#2882
OpenAI: GPT-5.1openai
AI 36.9400K ctx$1.25/M in
#2982
Meta: Llama 4 Scoutmeta-llama
AI 1010M ctx$0.1000/M in
#3082
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7minimax
AI 38.1205K ctx$0.1800/M in
#3182
Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibaba
AI 19$0.1000/M in
#3282
StepFun: Step 3.7 Flashstepfun
AI 29.7256K ctx$0.2000/M in
#3382
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingqwen
AI 27.6131K ctx$0.2600/M in
#3482
Muse SparkMeta
AI 43.1Free/M in
#3582
Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Reasoning)Upstage
AI 12.5Free/M in
#3682
AllenAI: Molmo2 8Ballenai
AI 237K ctx$0.2000/M in
#3782
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32Bdeepseek
AI 11128K ctx$0.2900/M in
#3882
Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instructmistralai
AI 2.433K ctx$0.5400/M in
#3982
Nova 2.0 Omni (Non-reasoning)Amazon
AI 10.5$0.3000/M in
#4082
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0amazon
AI 12.71M ctx$2.50/M in
#4182
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instructqwen
AI 7.5128K ctx$0.2000/M in
#4282
Mistral Large 2407mistralai
AI 7.3131K ctx$2.00/M in
#4382
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Supernvidia
AI 25.41M ctx$0.0850/M in
#4482
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Previewqwen
AI 40262K ctx$1.04/M in
#4582
MiniMax: MiniMax M3minimax
AI 44.41M ctx$0.3000/M in
#4682
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructqwen
AI 14.3262K ctx$0.2000/M in
#4782
Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Litegoogle
AI 12.31M ctx$0.0750/M in
#4882
OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06)openai
AI 9.6128K ctx$2.50/M in
#4982
Ministral 3 8BMistral
AI 9$0.1500/M in
#5082
Llama 3.1 Tulu3 405BAllen Institute for AI
AI 8.3Free/M in

How we rank AI models

The Design for Online AI Model Leaderboard scores 592 models on a single 0–100 scale built from four weighted dimensions: intelligence (reasoning and knowledge benchmarks), technical capability (coding and tool use), content quality (writing and instruction-following) and value (capability per dollar).

Underlying data is aggregated from the OpenRouter API for pricing and availability, Artificial Analysis for intelligence, coding and agentic indices, and the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard for open-model benchmarks. We refresh these sources daily and layer our own editorial review on top, so a model that benchmarks well but is impractical to deploy will not automatically top the table.

Models are grouped into tiers (Frontier, Professional, Specialist, Efficient, Emerging and Legacy) to make like-for-like comparison easier, and newly released models are flagged so you can see what has just landed.

Leaderboard FAQ

How often is the leaderboard updated?

Pricing, availability and benchmark data are synced daily from our sources, and editorial scores are reviewed whenever a significant new model is released.

How is the overall score calculated?

Each model is graded 0–10 on intelligence, technical capability, content quality and value; those dimensions are weighted and combined into the 0–100 overall score used to rank the table.

Where does the data come from?

From the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard, combined with hands-on editorial testing by the Design for Online team.