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- Ranked by the LMArena text rating (LMArena leaderboard dataset (CC-BY-4.0)), highest first. Ties go to the lower blended price.
- A model counts for this job when its taxonomy v2 classification names writing and editing, or its old category maps to it.
- Each model must list text output on OpenRouter or on its own record.
- Prices and scores come from the market tables only, each with the day it is for. The price on a model's own record is not used.
- Missing data never ranks. A model with no confirmed score in the last 30 days or unknown inputs and outputs is listed apart, with the reason. Price is shown when one is confirmed, and is not needed to rank.
Market data as of 10 Nov 2026. Prices: OpenRouter models API (official). Score: LMArena leaderboard dataset (CC-BY-4.0) (third-party).
Ranked: 78 of 418 models
Cheapest for writing and editing →| # | Model | LMArena text rating | Score date | Blended / 1M | Price date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen | 1,485 | 10 Nov 2026 | $3.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 2 |  Kimi K3Moonshotai | 1,474 | 10 Nov 2026 | $4.14 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 3 |  GPT-5.5OpenAI | 1,471 | 10 Nov 2026 | $11.25 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 4 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 1,469 | 10 Nov 2026 | $5.63 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 5 |  Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | 1,469 | 10 Nov 2026 | $4.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 6 |  GLM 5.1Accounts | 1,463 | 10 Nov 2026 | $2.04 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 7 | GLM 5.1 TEETee | 1,463 | 10 Nov 2026 | $2.04 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | 1,461 | 10 Nov 2026 | $10.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 9 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 1,458 | 10 Nov 2026 | $6.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 10 | Qwen3.7 PlusQwen | 1,454 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.560 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 11 | Pro/zai-org/GLM-5Pro | 1,446 | 10 Nov 2026 | $1.55 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 12 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 1,443 | 10 Nov 2026 | $3.44 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 13 |  Gemma 4 31BGoogle | 1,443 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.250 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 14 | Gemma 4 31B IT FP8Google | 1,443 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.250 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 15 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | 1,442 | 10 Nov 2026 | $4.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 16 | GLM 4.6Z Ai | 1,440 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.875 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 17 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 1,440 | 10 Nov 2026 | $20.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 18 | Qwen3.5 397B A17B FP8Qwen | 1,438 | 10 Nov 2026 | $1.35 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 19 | TQwen3.5 397B A17B TEETee | 1,438 | 10 Nov 2026 | $1.35 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 20 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle | 1,434 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.085 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 21 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | 1,431 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.450 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 22 |  Grok 4.6xAI | 1,430 | 10 Nov 2026 | $3.00 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 23 |  DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 1,425 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.305 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 24 |  Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral | 1,425 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.800 | 10 Nov 2026 |
| 25 | DeepSeek V3.2Deepseek Ai | 1,425 | 10 Nov 2026 | $0.290 | 10 Nov 2026 |
Showing the top 25 of 78 ranked models.
Not ranked, and why (340)
No confirmed score in the market tables in the last 30 days 334
- Agnes 1.5 Lite No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Aion 3.5 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Aion 3.5 Mini No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Aion-2.0 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Aion-3.0 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Aion-3.0-Mini No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Aion-RP 1.0 (8B) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- AionLabs: Aion-2.5 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Ambient Large No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Anubis 70B v1 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Anubis 70B v1.1 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Arcee AI: Maestro Reasoning No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Arcee AI: Spotlight No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Auto Router (Beta) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- baichuan-m2-32b No confirmed LMArena text rating
- baidu/ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B No confirmed LMArena text rating
- BGE Base EN v1.5 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Bielik 11B v2.6 Instruct No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude 3.5 Haiku No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude 4.6 Opus Thinking Low No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Fable 5 (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Haiku Latest No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Opus 3 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Opus Latest No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Sonnet 5 (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- claude-code No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Claude-Haiku-3 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Cohere Command A No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Compound No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Cydonia 24B V4.1 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Deepgram Aura 2 (EN) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Deepgram Aura 2 (ES) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Deepgram Nova 3 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepHermes-3 Mistral 24B (Preview) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek Latest No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek OCR No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek R1 Qwen Abliterated No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3 0324 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3.1 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3.1 Nex N1 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3.1 TEE No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (Thinking) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V3.2 Thinking No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DeepSeek/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp-Thinking No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B IT No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DMind-1 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- DMind-1-Mini No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Dolphin 72b No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Dots3-Note Preview (free) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Doubao-Seed-1.8 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- dracarys-llama-3.1-70b-instruct No confirmed LMArena text rating
- ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B No confirmed LMArena text rating
- EVA Llama 3.33 70B No confirmed LMArena text rating
- EVA-LLaMA-3.33-70B-v0.1 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- EVA-Qwen2.5-32B-v0.2 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- EVA-Qwen2.5-72B-v0.2 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Evayale 70b No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Free Models Router No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemini 3 Pro Preview No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemini 3 Pro Preview No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemini Flash Latest No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemini Pro Latest No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 2 27B No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 2 2b It No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 3 12B No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 3 12B IT No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 3 12B IT No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 3 27B No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 3 27B IT No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 3 4B (Pretrained) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 3 4B IT No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 4 12B IT No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 4 26B A4B Thinking No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 4 26B A4B Uncensored TEE No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 4 31B No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 4 31B Thinking TEE No confirmed LMArena text rating
- gemma 4 31B turbo TEE No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma 4 E2B IT No confirmed LMArena text rating
- Gemma Sea Lion V4 27B It No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GLiNER2 Multi No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GLM 4.6 Original No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GLM 5.1 Thinking No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GLM 5.3 FlashX No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GLM 5.3 Prime No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT Chat Latest No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT OSS 120B High Throughput No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-3.5-Turbo-Raw No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-4 Turbo (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-4 Turbo Preview No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-4.1 (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-4o (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-4o-Aug No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-4o-mini (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5 (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5 Chat No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5 Chat (latest) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5 Image Mini No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5 Mini (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5 Pro No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5.1 (2025-11-13) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5.1 (batch) No confirmed LMArena text rating
- GPT-5.1 Chat No confirmed LMArena text rating
And 214 more.
What the model takes in and puts out is not known 6
- Claude 3 Haiku No input or output list from OpenRouter or the record
- Gemma 3n 4B No input or output list from OpenRouter or the record
- Llama 3 8B Instruct No input or output list from OpenRouter or the record
- Llama 3 8B Instruct No input or output list from OpenRouter or the record
- Llama 3 8B Instruct AWQ No input or output list from OpenRouter or the record
- Qwen3.8 Max No input or output list from OpenRouter or the record
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