Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs GPT-4 Turbo

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 24.1 to 9.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini and 46.7% for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index33.630.5
Released2025-04-142023-11-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M128K
Max output33K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$10
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$30
Results tracked4736

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
WeirdML37.6%18%
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%48.2%
LMArena Coding13671268
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete—58.2%
CadEval16%—
HumanEval+—86.6%
MBPP+—73.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), GPT-4 Turbo: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—
METR Time Horizons—36.7%

Reasoning GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
Chess Puzzles7%6%
LMArena Hard Prompts13491251
DTBench68.8%61.6%
LMCA21.1%9.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01127.25
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench—25.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
ForecastBench—59.4

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%6.7%
LMArena Math13431272
MATH Level 587.3%46.7%
Omni-MATH49.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
GPQA Diamond65.8%46.6%
LMArena Expert13381223
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
Confabulations—28.4%
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
MMLU—81.3%

Multimodal GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision11811090

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English13181245
LMArena Chinese13291242
LMArena French13581276
LMArena German13511259
LMArena Japanese12901194
LMArena Korean12981187
LMArena Russian13241259
LMArena Spanish13191260

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following13331249
IFEval90.4%—

Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query13441254
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text13401272
LMArena Creative Writing13001269
LMArena Multi-Turn13541267
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4 Turbo share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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