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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs GPT-4.1 mini

GPT-4.1 mini has enough public results to be ranked (#240); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 mini in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.2 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 96% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 3.5% for GPT-4.1 mini.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index58.333.6
Released2026-02-122025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked347

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
LMArena Coding—1367
CadEval—16%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
ARC-AGI-284.6%0%
ARC-AGI-196%3.5%
CritPt25.7%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
Chess Puzzles—7%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1349
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.01

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
LMArena Math—1343
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%
LMArena Expert—1338

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision—1181

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English—1318
LMArena Chinese—1329
LMArena French—1358
LMArena German—1351
LMArena Japanese—1290
LMArena Korean—1298
LMArena Russian—1324
LMArena Spanish—1319

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
IFEval—90.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1333

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1344

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text—1340
LMArena Creative Writing—1300
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1354

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has enough public results to be ranked (#240); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and GPT-4.1 mini share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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