Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Instant vs GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#215); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Instant Anthropic

28.8

Unranked Sparse

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.7

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 18.8 to 11.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 68.3% for GPT-4.1.

Side by side

Claude InstantGPT-4.1
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index28.835.7
Released2023-08-092025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked752

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 34.2 (#228)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
SWE-bench Verified—48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—39.6%
Aider Polyglot—52.4%
WeirdML—39%
LMArena Coding—1391
CadEval—42%
ALE-Bench—558.1
HumanEval+50.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#40)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%

Reasoning Claude Instant leads

Claude Instant: 18.8, GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#334)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
DTBench45.8%68.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.2136.79
ARC-AGI-2—0.4%
SimpleBench—27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5.5%
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval—2.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1384
LMCA—25.6%
ForecastBench—61.5

Math Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 21.4 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—38.3%
Omni-MATH—47.1%
LMArena Math—1369
MATH Level 5—83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—5.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K86.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 37.0 (#152)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
GPQA Diamond—66.9%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
SimpleQA Verified—31.1%
MMLU-Pro—81.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.6%
GPQA (HELM)—65.9%
LMArena Expert—1364
ARC (AI2) Challenge86.3%—
MMLU73.4%—
TriviaQA78.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 37.5 (#66)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
LMArena Vision—1210
GeoBench—72%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 49.6 (#128)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English—1370
LMArena Chinese—1382
LMArena French—1383
LMArena German—1380
LMArena Japanese—1320
LMArena Korean—1339
LMArena Russian—1377
LMArena Spanish—1375

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
IFEval—83.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1367

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#158)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%
LMArena Longer Query—1385

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, GPT-4.1: 57.8 (#120)

BenchmarkClaude InstantGPT-4.1
LMArena Text—1383
LMArena Creative Writing—1363
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1420
WildBench—85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1398

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Instant better than GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#215); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and GPT-4.1 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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