Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 mini

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4.1 mini costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.1

Rank #42 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 46.1 to 10.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 86.5% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 3.5% for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index50.133.5
Released2026-02-172025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1.05M
Max output128K33K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$15$1.60
Results tracked5747

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
SciCode46.8%40.4%
WeirdML66.1%37.6%
LMArena Coding15041367
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
LMArena WebDev1521—
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26), GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#40), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
ARC-AGI-260.4%0%
ARC-AGI-186.5%3.5%
CritPt3.1%0%
Chess Puzzles13%7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851349
Mystery Game Puzzles16%7%
DTBench89.9%68.8%
LMCA46.5%21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.25135.01
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.9 (#41), GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%44.7%
LMArena Math14631343
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%4.5%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
ProofBench45%—
Omni-MATH—49.1%
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.6 (#60), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
GPQA Diamond87.4%65.8%
SimpleQA Verified35.5%12.7%
LMArena Expert15001338
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%

Multimodal Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61), GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision12831181
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English14401318
LMArena Chinese14911329
LMArena French14651357
LMArena German14281349
LMArena Japanese14191291
LMArena Korean14111298
LMArena Russian14401324
LMArena Spanish14651319

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following14761332
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query14791344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text14581341
LMArena Creative Writing14351300
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18101147
LMArena Multi-Turn14641354
WildBench—83.8%
EQ-Bench 41207—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than GPT-4.1 mini?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4.1 mini costs 8.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.6 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.0 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-4.1 mini share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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