Writing & creativity benchmarks

Explore writing, storytelling, and artistic tasks. Results reflect each evaluation's criteria for creativity, style, coherence, or quality rather than a single universal measure of creative ability.

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Models tested: 126

Writing video scripts against a fixed reference style, with separate rubric scores, model-judge preferences and evaluation settings.

Top models · tonebench

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1GPT-6 SolMedium81.06 source score
  2. 2GPT-6 SolMax80.55 source score
  3. 3GPT-6 AstraMax80.37 source score
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Models tested: 144

Author workflows covering creative writing, editing, translation, instruction following and factual reliability in Novelcrafter’s published evaluation suite.

Top models · nc bench

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5Thinking96.43%
  2. 2GPT-6.1 SolMedium95.88%
  3. 3Gemini 3.8 FlashMedium95.72%
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Models tested: 90

Short-form creative writing evaluated by LLM judges using pairwise Elo comparisons and writing-quality rubrics. Reported scores are preserved before optional interactive…

Top models · eq bench

Latest result per model · creative-writing-v3

  1. 1Grok 4.717.16 rubric score
  2. 2Claude Opus 517.07 rubric score
  3. 3GLM 5.317.04 rubric score
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Models tested: 50

Models write short stories to the same constrained creative briefs. Independent evaluators make pairwise comparisons of matched stories in both orders. The current pooled-panel…

Top models · lechmazur short story

Latest result per model · 8ba548d1cffefa5c472d3832e05f64e119a88fa4

  1. 1Claude Fable 5.1High3.76
  2. 2Claude Opus 5Extra high3.73
  3. 3Claude Opus 5.5High3.71
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Models tested: 93

Planning, revising and writing an eight-part story from a short prompt. LLM judges assess chapter quality and the completed narrative; the published overall score and…

Top models · eq bench

Latest result per model · longform-writing

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.517.53 rubric score
  2. 2Claude Opus 517.51 rubric score
  3. 3Claude Fable 5.117.48 rubric score
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Models tested: 16

Writing long-form video scripts for twelve test prompts, assessed by blind model judges on hook, retention, storytelling, voice, pacing and clarity; reported cost is relative to a…

Top models · tubelab

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1Claude Fable 59.4 score out of 10
  2. 2Claude Opus 59.4 score out of 10
  3. 3Claude Opus 4.89.3 score out of 10
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Models tested: 191

Human pairwise preferences over SVG illustrations generated from the same prompts, reported on the publisher’s rating scale.

Top models · svgbench

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1GPT-5.4 Pro2,058
  2. 2MiMo-V2.51,865
  3. 3Claude Opus 4.71,802
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Models tested: 18

LLM-judged creative writing quality on the legacy v2 rubric. Original published scores are retained without the page’s optional vocabulary-complexity or repetitive-language slider…

Top models · eq bench

Latest result per model · creative-writing-v2

  1. 1DeepSeek R187.11%
  2. 2Gemma 3 27B85.25%
  3. 3GPT-4o (2024-11-20)84.59%
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Models tested: 16

Repetitive writing patterns measured from stock words, trigrams and contrast constructions. The official composite weights normalized frequencies by 60%, 15% and 25%; lower scores…

Top models · eq bench

Latest result per model · slop-score

  1. 1O30.09 matches per 1000 chars
  2. 2GPT-5 Mini0.13 matches per 1000 chars
  3. 3Llama 4 Maverick0.13 matches per 1000 chars
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Models tested: 15

Humour analysis evaluated by EQ-Bench, measuring how well language models identify and explain comedic material. The published score and confidence interval are kept independently…

Top models · eq bench

Latest result per model · buzzbench

  1. 1Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-0671.09%
  2. 2GPT-4.167.1%
  3. 3DeepSeek R162.73%
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Models tested: 151

Human pairwise preferences on creative writing prompts in Arena’s text evaluation. The original organizer publishes model ratings and uncertainty; these are preference ratings…

Top models · Arena

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5High1,534.57
  2. 2Gemini 4 ArgonHigh1,527.25
  3. 3Claude Fable 5.1Max1,508.78
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Models tested: 151

Human pairwise preferences on industry entertainment and sports and media prompts in Arena’s text evaluation. The original organizer publishes model ratings and uncertainty; these…

Top models · Arena

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1Gemini 4 ArgonHigh1,526.74
  2. 2Claude Opus 5.5High1,514.87
  3. 3Claude Fable 5.1Max1,496.79
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Models tested: 151

Human pairwise preferences on industry writing and literature and language prompts in Arena’s text evaluation. The original organizer publishes model ratings and uncertainty;…

Top models · Arena

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5High1,531.8
  2. 2Gemini 4 ArgonHigh1,529.39
  3. 3Claude Fable 5.1Max1,510.5
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Models tested: 151

Human pairwise preferences on creative writing prompts in Arena’s text style control evaluation. The original organizer publishes model ratings and uncertainty, adjusting for…

Top models · Arena

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5High1,519.69
  2. 2Gemini 4 ArgonHigh1,515.76
  3. 3Claude Fable 5High1,500.85
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Models tested: 151

Human pairwise preferences on industry entertainment and sports and media prompts in Arena’s text style control evaluation. The original organizer publishes model ratings and…

Top models · Arena

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1Gemini 4 ArgonHigh1,518.57
  2. 2Claude Opus 5.5High1,502.1
  3. 3Claude Fable 5High1,492.8
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Models tested: 151

Human pairwise preferences on industry writing and literature and language prompts in Arena’s text style control evaluation. The original organizer publishes model ratings and…

Top models · Arena

Latest result per model · Version not reported

  1. 1Gemini 4 ArgonHigh1,520.31
  2. 2Claude Opus 5.5High1,519.28
  3. 3Claude Fable 5High1,507.84
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