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Collections/Roleplay

Best AI Models for Roleplay (RP) and Creative Writing

Model rankings updated September 2026 based on real usage data.

Discover the top AI models for roleplay (RP), character chat and creative writing, ranked by real usage data on OpenRouter. These LLMs excel at maintaining consistent personas, rich dialogue and immersive storytelling across long-context sessions.

Whether you're using Janitor AI, SillyTavern or another frontend, or building your own character chatbot or interactive fiction engine, OpenRouter gives you access to the best roleplay models through a single API.

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LLM Leaderboard for Roleplay Models

1.
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Deepseek V4 Flash
by deepseek
1.18T
29.0%
2.
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Deepseek V4 Flash
by deepseek
354B
8.7%
3.
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Deepseek V3.2
by deepseek
250B
6.1%
4.
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Minimax M3 (free)
by minimax
232B
5.7%
5.
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GLM 5.3 Flash
by z-ai
158B
3.9%
6.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
by google
148B
3.6%
7.
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Gemini 3 Flash Preview
by google
147B
3.6%
8.
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Mimo V2.5 Pro
by xiaomi
144B
3.5%
9.
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Mimo V2.5
by xiaomi
142B
3.5%
10.
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Others
1.32T
32.3%

Top Roleplay Models on OpenRouter

Based on top weekly usage data from millions of users accessing AI models for roleplay through OpenRouter.

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Tencent: Hy4 preview

13.4T tokens

Tencent: Hy4 preview is a mixture-of-experts model from Tencent, with 49B active parameters out of 770B total. It is designed for coding agents, complex tool-use workflows, and productivity tasks that require planning, context continuity, and sustained multi-step execution.

by tencent1.05M context$0.834/M input tokens$2.501/M output tokens

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Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash

13T tokens

GLM-5.3-Flash is a native multimodal model from Z.ai. It is suited for efficient coding and long-horizon agent tasks. Its hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture maintains accurate long-context behavior while reducing compute overhead.

by z-ai1.31M context$0.075/M input tokens$0.25/M output tokens50% off
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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna

12.4T tokens

GPT-5.6 Luna is a fast, cost-efficient model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. It is suited for high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks such as chat, classification, and lightweight agentic workflows, providing capable reasoning for its price tier.

by openai1.05M context$0.20/M input tokens$1.20/M output tokens
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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

12.3T tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, with 13B active parameters out of 284B total. This re-post-trained revision is suited for coding, reasoning, and agent workflows. This is the GA release of DeepSeek V4 Flash.

by deepseek1.31M context$0.05/M input tokens$0.16/M output tokens
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Tencent: Hy3

5.66T tokens

Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model from Tencent (21B active, 192 experts with top-8 routing) built for reasoning, agentic workflows, and real-world production use. It supports a configurable reasoning effort: a direct no-think mode by default, plus low and high chain-of-thought modes for complex math, coding, and multi-step problems. With a 256K context window, Hy3 targets long-horizon tasks, including improved coreference resolution, multi-turn constraint tracking, and stable tool-calling that generalizes across agent scaffoldings.

Tencent positions it as a reliable, cost-effective option across coding, document processing, financial analysis, game development, and frontend design, with a strong emphasis on grounded, anti-hallucination behavior that answers when grounded and flags when evidence is missing rather than fabricating.

by tencent262K context$0.126/M input tokens$0.522/M output tokens10% off
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MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (free)

5.64T tokens

MiniMax-M3 is a multimodal foundation model from MiniMax. It supports text, image, and video inputs with text output, a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agentic work, coding, and tool use. It is built on MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), which replaces full attention with KV-block selection to cut per-token compute at long context — roughly 1/20 the cost of the previous generation at 1M tokens, with substantially faster prefill and decode while retaining quality across most tasks.

Trained as a native multimodal model on interleaved data and tuned for multi-turn, production-like collaboration via an interactive user-simulator framework, the model is oriented toward sustained, multi-step tasks rather than single-turn execution.

by minimax1.05M context$0/M input tokens$0/M output tokens
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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

5.56T tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash is an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 284B total parameters and 13B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for fast inference and high-throughput workloads, while maintaining strong reasoning and coding performance.

The model includes hybrid attention for efficient long-context processing. Reasoning efforts high and xhigh are supported; xhigh maps to max reasoning. It is well suited for applications such as coding assistants, chat systems, and agent workflows where responsiveness and cost efficiency are important.

by deepseek1.05M context$0.0679/M input tokens$0.168/M output tokens
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Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5

4.63T tokens

MiMo-V2.5 is a native omnimodal model by Xiaomi. It delivers Pro-level agentic performance at roughly half the inference cost, while surpassing MiMo-V2-Omni in multimodal perception across image and video understanding tasks. Its 1M context window supports complete documents, extended conversations, and complex task contexts in a single pass, making it ideal for integration with agent frameworks where strong reasoning, rich perception, and cost efficiency all matter.

by xiaomi1.05M context$0.119/M input tokens$0.238/M output tokens15% off
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Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash

2.73T tokens

Gemini 3.7 Flash is a multimodal model from Google for fast agentic workflows, coding, and complex multi-step reasoning. It is designed for tasks that require responsive performance and reliable multi-step problem solving.

by google1.05M context$0.75/M input tokens$3.75/M output tokens50% off
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Z.ai: GLM 5.3

2.59T tokens

GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and improves on GLM-5.2 in coding and in the balance between performance and token efficiency.

Reasoning is always on and cannot be disabled. Reasoning efforts low, high, and max are supported; max is the default.

by z-ai1.31M context$1.15/M input tokens$3.50/M output tokens