Content Writing

Top picks for long-form writing and copywriting.

Updated June 14, 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
9OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Miniopenai8238.6400K$0.2500$2.00
10OpenAI: o3 Proopenai8240.7200K$20.00$80.00
11Perplexity: Sonarperplexity8215.5127K$1.00$1.00
12OpenAI: GPT-4 Turboopenai8213.7128K$10.00$30.00
13Ministral 3 8BMistral8214.8$0.1500$0.1500
14Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Non-reasoning)Upstage8216FreeFree
15MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5moonshotai8237.3262K$0.3750$2.03
16Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025google8231.11M$0.1000$0.4000
17DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324deepseek8222.3164K$0.2000$0.7700
18Mistral: Pixtral Large 2411mistralai8214131K$2.00$6.00
19Inception: Mercury 2inception8232.8128K$0.2500$0.7500
20Step3 VL 10BStepFun8215.5FreeFree
21Qwen3 4B 2507 InstructAlibaba8212.9FreeFree
22Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai8214.8262K$0.1500$0.1500
23OpenAI: GPT-5openai8223.9400K$1.25$10.00
24Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Litegoogle8218.51M$0.0750$0.3000
25Z.ai: GLM 5V Turboz-ai8242.9203K$1.20$4.00
26Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibaba8225.9$0.1000$0.8000
27Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)Google New8229.2FreeFree
28Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1kwaipilot8236256K$0.2070$0.8280
29xAI: Grok 3x-ai8225.2131K$3.00$15.00
30DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70Bdeepseek8216128K$0.8000$0.8000
31Anthropic: Claude 3 Haikuanthropic8212.3200K$0.2500$1.25
32Mistral Large 3Mistral8222.8$0.5000$1.50
33Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Reasoning)Upstage8218.8FreeFree
34Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingqwen8227.6131K$0.2600$2.60
35OpenAI: o1-proopenai8225.8200K$150.00$600.00
36Hermes 4 – Llama-3.1 405B (Non-reasoning)Nous Research8217.6$1.00$3.00
37Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)Alibaba8237.1$0.6000$3.60
38Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512mistralai8215.1262K$0.5000$1.50
39OpenAI: GPT-5 Miniopenai8241.2400K$0.2500$2.00
40Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnetanthropic8230.8200K$3.00$15.00
41OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06)openai8218.6128K$2.50$10.00
42Google: Gemma 4 31Bgoogle8239.2262K$0.1200$0.3500
43Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sep ’24)Google8216FreeFree
44MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinkingmoonshotai8240.9262K$0.6000$2.50
45Anthropic: Claude Opus 4anthropic8239200K$15.00$75.00
46DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3deepseek8216.5131K$0.2002$0.8001
47Ministral 3 14BMistral8216$0.2000$0.2000
48Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)IBM827$0.0300$0.2500
49OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codexopenai8249400K$1.75$14.00
50Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructqwen8220.8262K$0.2000$0.8800
#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
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Miniopenai
AI 38.6400K ctx$0.2500/M in
#1082
OpenAI: o3 Proopenai
AI 40.7200K ctx$20.00/M in
#1182
Perplexity: Sonarperplexity
AI 15.5127K ctx$1.00/M in
#1282
OpenAI: GPT-4 Turboopenai
AI 13.7128K ctx$10.00/M in
#1382
Ministral 3 8BMistral
AI 14.8$0.1500/M in
#1482
Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Non-reasoning)Upstage
AI 16Free/M in
#1582
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5moonshotai
AI 37.3262K ctx$0.3750/M in
#1682
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025google
AI 31.11M ctx$0.1000/M in
#1782
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324deepseek
AI 22.3164K ctx$0.2000/M in
#1882
Mistral: Pixtral Large 2411mistralai
AI 14131K ctx$2.00/M in
#1982
Inception: Mercury 2inception
AI 32.8128K ctx$0.2500/M in
#2082
Step3 VL 10BStepFun
AI 15.5Free/M in
#2182
Qwen3 4B 2507 InstructAlibaba
AI 12.9Free/M in
#2282
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai
AI 14.8262K ctx$0.1500/M in
#2382
OpenAI: GPT-5openai
AI 23.9400K ctx$1.25/M in
#2482
Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash Litegoogle
AI 18.51M ctx$0.0750/M in
#2582
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turboz-ai
AI 42.9203K ctx$1.20/M in
#2682
Qwen3.5 Omni FlashAlibaba
AI 25.9$0.1000/M in
#27New82
Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)Google
AI 29.2Free/M in
#2882
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V1kwaipilot
AI 36256K ctx$0.2070/M in
#2982
xAI: Grok 3x-ai
AI 25.2131K ctx$3.00/M in
#3082
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70Bdeepseek
AI 16128K ctx$0.8000/M in
#3182
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haikuanthropic
AI 12.3200K ctx$0.2500/M in
#3282
Mistral Large 3Mistral
AI 22.8$0.5000/M in
#3382
Solar Pro 2 (Preview) (Reasoning)Upstage
AI 18.8Free/M in
#3482
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingqwen
AI 27.6131K ctx$0.2600/M in
#3582
OpenAI: o1-proopenai
AI 25.8200K ctx$150.00/M in
#3682
Hermes 4 – Llama-3.1 405B (Non-reasoning)Nous Research
AI 17.6$1.00/M in
#3782
Qwen3.6 27B (Non-reasoning)Alibaba
AI 37.1$0.6000/M in
#3882
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512mistralai
AI 15.1262K ctx$0.5000/M in
#3982
OpenAI: GPT-5 Miniopenai
AI 41.2400K ctx$0.2500/M in
#4082
Anthropic: Claude 3.7 Sonnetanthropic
AI 30.8200K ctx$3.00/M in
#4182
OpenAI: GPT-4o (2024-08-06)openai
AI 18.6128K ctx$2.50/M in
#4282
Google: Gemma 4 31Bgoogle
AI 39.2262K ctx$0.1200/M in
#4382
Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sep ’24)Google
AI 16Free/M in
#4482
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinkingmoonshotai
AI 40.9262K ctx$0.6000/M in
#4582
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4anthropic
AI 39200K ctx$15.00/M in
#4682
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3deepseek
AI 16.5131K ctx$0.2002/M in
#4782
Ministral 3 14BMistral
AI 16$0.2000/M in
#4882
Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)IBM
AI 7$0.0300/M in
#4982
OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codexopenai
AI 49400K ctx$1.75/M in
#5082
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructqwen
AI 20.8262K ctx$0.2000/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.