WritingBench

A comprehensive benchmark for evaluating large language models' generative writing capabilities across 6 core writing domains (Academic & Engineering, Finance & Business, Politics & Law, Literature & Art, Education, Advertising & Marketing) and 100 subdomains. Contains 1,239 queries with a query-dependent evaluation framework that dynamically generates 5 instance-specific assessment criteria for each writing task, using a fine-tuned critic model to score responses on style, format, and length dimensions.

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the WritingBench leaderboard with a score of 0.883 across 15 evaluated AI models.

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WritingBench Leaderboard

15 models
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1
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
235B
2
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
80B
3
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.45 / $3.49
4
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.18 / $2.09
5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.30 / $1.49
7
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
7
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
235B
9
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
80B
10
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $1.00
11
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.08 / $0.50
12
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
13
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
14
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $0.60
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Common questions about WritingBench.

What is the WritingBench benchmark?

A comprehensive benchmark for evaluating large language models' generative writing capabilities across 6 core writing domains (Academic & Engineering, Finance & Business, Politics & Law, Literature & Art, Education, Advertising & Marketing) and 100 subdomains. Contains 1,239 queries with a query-dependent evaluation framework that dynamically generates 5 instance-specific assessment criteria for each writing task, using a fine-tuned critic model to score responses on style, format, and length dimensions.

What is the WritingBench leaderboard?

The WritingBench leaderboard ranks 15 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.883. The average score across all models is 0.842.

What is the highest WritingBench score?

The highest WritingBench score is 0.883, achieved by Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on WritingBench?

15 models have been evaluated on the WritingBench benchmark, with 0 verified results and 15 self-reported results.

Where can I find the WritingBench paper?

The WritingBench paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05244. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does WritingBench cover?

WritingBench is categorized under writing, communication, creativity, finance, and legal. The benchmark evaluates text models with multilingual support.

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