Content Writing

Top picks for long-form writing and copywriting.

Updated June 13, 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 Pick94.764.91M$10.00$50.00
2Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8anthropic New Top Pick In-House Pick92.461.41M$5.00$25.00
3Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgoogle Best for Agents91.757.21M$2.00$12.00
4OpenAI: GPT-5.5openai Top Pick88.860.21.1M$5.00$30.00
5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7anthropic88.351.81M$5.00$25.00
6Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic In-House Pick84.451.71M$3.00$15.00
7OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codexopenai83.553.6400K$1.75$14.00
8Google: Gemini 3 Flash Previewgoogle82.546.41M$0.5000$3.00
9Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai8214.8262K$0.1500$0.1500
10OpenAI: GPT-5openai8223.9400K$1.25$10.00
11Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Litegoogle8218.51M$0.0750$0.3000
12Z.ai: GLM 5V Turboz-ai8242.9203K$1.20$4.00
13Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibaba8225.9$0.1000$0.8000
14Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)Google New8229.2FreeFree
15Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1kwaipilot8236256K$0.2070$0.8280
16xAI: Grok 3x-ai8225.2131K$3.00$15.00
17DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70Bdeepseek8216128K$0.8000$0.8000
18Anthropic: Claude 3 Haikuanthropic8212.3200K$0.2500$1.25
19Mistral Large 3Mistral8222.8$0.5000$1.50
20Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Reasoning)Upstage8218.8FreeFree
21Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingqwen8227.6131K$0.2600$2.60
22OpenAI: o1-proopenai8225.8200K$150.00$600.00
23Hermes 4 – Llama-3.1 405B (Non-reasoning)Nous Research8217.6$1.00$3.00
24Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)Alibaba8237.1$0.6000$3.60
25Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512mistralai8215.1262K$0.5000$1.50
26OpenAI: GPT-5 Miniopenai8241.2400K$0.2500$2.00
27Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnetanthropic8230.8200K$3.00$15.00
28OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06)openai8218.6128K$2.50$10.00
29Google: Gemma 4 31Bgoogle8239.2262K$0.1200$0.3500
30Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sep ’24)Google8216FreeFree
31MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinkingmoonshotai8240.9262K$0.6000$2.50
32Anthropic: Claude Opus 4anthropic8239200K$15.00$75.00
33DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3deepseek8216.5131K$0.2002$0.8001
34Ministral 3 14BMistral8216$0.2000$0.2000
35Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)IBM827$0.0300$0.2500
36OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codexopenai8249400K$1.75$14.00
37Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructqwen8220.8262K$0.2000$0.8800
38Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)mistralai8214.5128KFreeFree
39Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haikuanthropic8218.7200K$0.8000$4.00
40Qwen: Qwen3.5-9Bqwen8232.4262K$0.1000$0.1500
41Hermes 4 – Llama-3.1 70B (Non-reasoning)Nous Research8212.6$0.1300$0.4000
42DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Specialedeepseek8229.4164K$0.2870$0.4310
43Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1anthropic8242200K$15.00$75.00
44Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)anthropic8234.7200K$3.00$15.00
45Meta: Llama 3.1 405B (base)meta-llama8217.433K$4.00$4.00
46Google: Gemma 4 26B A4Bgoogle8227.1262K$0.0600$0.3300
47Gemini 1.5 Flash (Sep ’24)Google8213.8FreeFree
48Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4anthropic82331M$3.00$15.00
49Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instructmistralai827.733K$0.5400$0.5400
50Magistral Small 1.2Mistral8218.2$0.5000$1.50
#1NewTop Pick94.7
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5anthropic
AI 64.91M ctx$10.00/M in
#2NewTop PickIn-House Pick92.4
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8anthropic
AI 61.41M ctx$5.00/M in
#3Best for Agents91.7
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgoogle
AI 57.21M ctx$2.00/M in
#4Top Pick88.8
OpenAI: GPT-5.5openai
AI 60.21.1M ctx$5.00/M in
#588.3
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7anthropic
AI 51.81M ctx$5.00/M in
#6In-House Pick84.4
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic
AI 51.71M ctx$3.00/M in
#783.5
OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codexopenai
AI 53.6400K ctx$1.75/M in
#882.5
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Previewgoogle
AI 46.41M ctx$0.5000/M in
#982
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai
AI 14.8262K ctx$0.1500/M in
#1082
OpenAI: GPT-5openai
AI 23.9400K ctx$1.25/M in
#1182
Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Litegoogle
AI 18.51M ctx$0.0750/M in
#1282
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turboz-ai
AI 42.9203K ctx$1.20/M in
#1382
Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibaba
AI 25.9$0.1000/M in
#14New82
Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)Google
AI 29.2Free/M in
#1582
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1kwaipilot
AI 36256K ctx$0.2070/M in
#1682
xAI: Grok 3x-ai
AI 25.2131K ctx$3.00/M in
#1782
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70Bdeepseek
AI 16128K ctx$0.8000/M in
#1882
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haikuanthropic
AI 12.3200K ctx$0.2500/M in
#1982
Mistral Large 3Mistral
AI 22.8$0.5000/M in
#2082
Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Reasoning)Upstage
AI 18.8Free/M in
#2182
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingqwen
AI 27.6131K ctx$0.2600/M in
#2282
OpenAI: o1-proopenai
AI 25.8200K ctx$150.00/M in
#2382
Hermes 4 – Llama-3.1 405B (Non-reasoning)Nous Research
AI 17.6$1.00/M in
#2482
Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)Alibaba
AI 37.1$0.6000/M in
#2582
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512mistralai
AI 15.1262K ctx$0.5000/M in
#2682
OpenAI: GPT-5 Miniopenai
AI 41.2400K ctx$0.2500/M in
#2782
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnetanthropic
AI 30.8200K ctx$3.00/M in
#2882
OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06)openai
AI 18.6128K ctx$2.50/M in
#2982
Google: Gemma 4 31Bgoogle
AI 39.2262K ctx$0.1200/M in
#3082
Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sep ’24)Google
AI 16Free/M in
#3182
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinkingmoonshotai
AI 40.9262K ctx$0.6000/M in
#3282
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4anthropic
AI 39200K ctx$15.00/M in
#3382
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3deepseek
AI 16.5131K ctx$0.2002/M in
#3482
Ministral 3 14BMistral
AI 16$0.2000/M in
#3582
Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)IBM
AI 7$0.0300/M in
#3682
OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codexopenai
AI 49400K ctx$1.75/M in
#3782
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructqwen
AI 20.8262K ctx$0.2000/M in
#3882
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B (free)mistralai
AI 14.5128K ctxFree/M in
#3982
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haikuanthropic
AI 18.7200K ctx$0.8000/M in
#4082
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9Bqwen
AI 32.4262K ctx$0.1000/M in
#4182
Hermes 4 – Llama-3.1 70B (Non-reasoning)Nous Research
AI 12.6$0.1300/M in
#4282
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Specialedeepseek
AI 29.4164K ctx$0.2870/M in
#4382
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1anthropic
AI 42200K ctx$15.00/M in
#4482
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking)anthropic
AI 34.7200K ctx$3.00/M in
#4582
Meta: Llama 3.1 405B (base)meta-llama
AI 17.433K ctx$4.00/M in
#4682
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4Bgoogle
AI 27.1262K ctx$0.0600/M in
#4782
Gemini 1.5 Flash (Sep ’24)Google
AI 13.8Free/M in
#4882
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4anthropic
AI 331M ctx$3.00/M in
#4982
Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instructmistralai
AI 7.733K ctx$0.5400/M in
#5082
Magistral Small 1.2Mistral
AI 18.2$0.5000/M in

How we rank AI models

The Design for Online AI Model Leaderboard scores 578 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.