Grok 4.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max for creative writing
Qwen3.7 Max wins, 96–93
Same 12 creative writing tasks, marked blind by three rival labs. Qwen3.7 Max took 4 tasks, Grok 4.5 took 2, 6 tied. Tested 16 Aug 2026.
Where they differed most
Write a scene in dialogue only — two adult siblings deciding whether to sell their late mother's piano. 12 to 16 lines of speech, no narration, no dialogue tags except an occasional 'said'. Each sibling must be right about something and wrong about something, and by the end the disagreement must clearly be about more than the piano.
"We should sell Mom's piano. Realtor says it kills the listing photos and we need the cash to cover the last of her bills." "No. That piano was the only thing that still felt like her after the hospital bed took over the den." "She hadn't played it in three years, Emily. You're turning it into a shrine so you don't have to admit she was already gone." "She stopped because her hands hurt, not because she stopped loving it. You'd know if you'd come home more than holidays." "I was working. You lived twenty minutes away and still signed the papers…
"The tuner said it needs two thousand dollars in repairs just to be playable, and neither of us even touches the keys." "Mom played it every single day until her hands gave out, so we can't just hand it off to some stranger for a few hundred bucks." "I'm selling it to the conservatory, but right now it's taking up half my living room while I pay for the square footage." "You could have put it in the guest room if you actually wanted to honor her memory instead of just erasing her." "I was the one who sat with her in the hospice wing for thr…
Task by task
| Task | Grok 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| The launderette at closing | 10 | 10 |
| Angry without saying angry | 10 | 10 |
| Ferry, retired | 9 | 10 |
| The piano argument | 8 | 10 |
| A hundred words exactly | 10 | 10 |
| Keep the voice | 8 | 8 |
| Kill the purple | 10 | 10 |
| His side of it | 8 | 10 |
| The bin lorry story | 10 | 10 |
| Around the hole | 9 | 10 |
| No one can promise Bridport | 10 | 8 |
| Refuse the fake article | 10 | 9 |
Full receipts: Grok 4.5, Qwen3.7 Max · judges claude-sonnet-5, gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.6-terra
Questions people ask
Which is better for creative writing: Grok 4.5 or Qwen3.7 Max?
Qwen3.7 Max — it scored 96/100 against 93/100 on our 12-task creative writing suite, winning 4 tasks to 2 with 6 tied. Every answer was marked blind by three judges from three rival AI labs.
How was this tested?
Both models answered the identical published creative writing tasks. Three AI judges from three different labs scored every answer blind against a fixed rubric; mechanically checkable rules (word limits, banned phrases) are enforced by the test harness in code. The raw outputs and judge verdicts are downloadable.
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Full ranking: Best AI for creative writing · model pages: Grok 4.5, Qwen3.7 Max