Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-4.1 mini
GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 7 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 24.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 33.6 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-04-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.60 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 47 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 19.2% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 48.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1367 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 23.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4% |
| SciCode | — | 40.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| CadEval | — | 16% |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 50.5% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1349 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 68.8% |
| LMCA | 17% | 21.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 135.01 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 48.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 3.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math GPT-4.1 mini leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 44.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1343 |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | 87.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 49.1% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |
Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 65.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | 12.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1338 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.3% |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 61.4% |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal GPT-4.1 mini leads
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1181 |
Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1318 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1329 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1358 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1351 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1290 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1319 |
Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1333 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
| IFEval | — | 90.4% |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1300 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1354 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 83.8% |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than GPT-4.1 mini?
GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?
Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4.1 mini share?
28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.