Model comparison

Claude 2 vs GPT-4.1 nano

GPT-4.1 nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2 Anthropic

25.0

Rank #346 Reported

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 nano in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-4.1 nano leads 26.9 to 9.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for Claude 2 and 70% for GPT-4.1 nano.

Side by side

Claude 2 and GPT-4.1 nano specifications
Claude 2GPT-4.1 nano
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index25.027.9
Released2023-07-112025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked838

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
LMArena Coding—1306
HumanEval+61.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning Claude 2 leads

Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
DTBench51.9%52.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.13129.62
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1286
LMCA—5.5%

Math GPT-4.1 nano leads

Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%28.9%
MATH Level 511.7%70%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
LMArena Math—1274
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge GPT-4.1 nano leads

Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond34.7%48.9%
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1272
MMLU78.5%—
TriviaQA87.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English—1260
LMArena Chinese—1270
LMArena German—1288
LMArena Japanese—1198
LMArena Russian—1261

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
IFEval—84.3%
LMArena Instruction Following—1267

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
Fiction.LiveBench—25%
LMArena Longer Query—1283

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2GPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text—1285
LMArena Creative Writing—1260
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
WildBench—81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1277

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2 better than GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and GPT-4.1 nano share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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