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Collections/Roleplay

Best AI Models for Roleplay (RP) and Creative Writing

Model rankings updated August 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
1.25T
36.7%
2.
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Deepseek V4 Pro
by deepseek
263B
7.7%
3.
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Deepseek V3.2
by deepseek
221B
6.5%
4.
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Gemma 4 31B IT
by google
186B
5.5%
5.
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Mimo V2.5
by xiaomi
148B
4.3%
6.
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Deepseek V4 Flash
by deepseek
130B
3.8%
7.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
by google
111B
3.3%
8.
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Mimo V2.5 Pro
by xiaomi
91B
2.7%
9.
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Gemini 3 Flash Preview
by google
87.2B
2.6%
10.
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Others
923B
27.1%

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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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

6.9T 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.

by deepseek1.05M context$0.09/M input tokens$0.18/M output tokens
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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

6.71T 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$0.084/M input tokens$0.168/M output tokens
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Tencent: Hy3

6.48T 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$0.1288/M input tokens$0.5336/M output tokens8% off
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Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5

5.72T 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$0.112/M input tokens$0.224/M output tokens20% off
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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna

4.53T 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$0.10/M input tokens$0.60/M output tokens50% off
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Z.ai: GLM 5.2

3.28T tokens

GLM 5.2 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agent workflows, project-level software engineering, and complex multi-step automation.

Reasoning efforts high and xhigh are supported; xhigh maps to max reasoning. It is particularly strong at coding and tool use across long-running tasks, able to maintain engineering context and follow standards consistently through a full development workflow, from requirements to multi-platform deployment, in a single task.

by z-ai1.05M context$0.5586/M input tokens$1.756/M output tokens60% off
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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro

2.79T tokens

DeepSeek V4 Pro is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts model from DeepSeek with 1.6T total parameters and 49B activated parameters, supporting a 1M-token context window. It is designed for advanced reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agent workflows, with strong performance across knowledge, math, and software engineering benchmarks.

Built on the same architecture as DeepSeek V4 Flash, it introduces a hybrid attention system for efficient long-context processing. Reasoning efforts high and xhigh are supported; xhigh maps to max reasoning. It is well suited for complex workloads such as full-codebase analysis, multi-step automation, and large-scale information synthesis, where both capability and efficiency are critical.

by deepseek1.05M context$0.435/M input tokens$0.87/M output tokens
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MiniMax: MiniMax M3

1.89T 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$0.24/M input tokens$0.96/M output tokens60% off
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MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

1.49T tokens

Kimi K3 is a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model from Moonshot AI. It is suited for complex coding, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic workflows, and is particularly strong at navigating large repositories, using tools, debugging, and iterating against images, logs, tests, and runtime feedback. Its architecture uses KDA and Attention Residuals for computational efficiency.

by moonshotai1.05M context$2.50/M input tokens$14/M output tokens
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StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash

1.42T tokens

Step 3.7 Flash is StepFun's latest high-efficiency multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model. It pairs a 196B-parameter language backbone with a vision encoder for native image and video understanding, activating roughly 11B parameters per token. The model supports a 256K context window and exposes selectable reasoning levels (high/medium/low), letting callers trade off speed, cost, and depth of reasoning.

Designed for coding, agentic workflows, structured outputs, and long-context productivity tasks.

by stepfun262K context$0.20/M input tokens$1.15/M output tokens