Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs GPT-6.1 Sol

GPT-4.1 mini has enough public results to be ranked (#232); GPT-6.1 Sol does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI

42.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-6.1 Sol leads 51.4 to 30.4.
  • GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6.1 Sol.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-6.1 Sol specifications
GPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index33.542.1
Released2025-04-142026-09-29
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$2
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$10
Results tracked472

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6.1 Sol leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286), GPT-6.1 Sol: 51.4

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
DeepSWE—75.2%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding1367—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6.1 Sol leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52), GPT-6.1 Sol: 34.3

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—
GDP.pdf—32%

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1349—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
LMArena Math1343—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
GPQA Diamond65.8%—
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
LMArena Expert1338—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena Chinese1329—
LMArena French1357—
LMArena German1349—
LMArena Japanese1291—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
IFEval90.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1332—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Text1341—
LMArena Creative Writing1300—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1354—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than GPT-6.1 Sol?

GPT-4.1 mini has enough public results to be ranked (#232); GPT-6.1 Sol does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or GPT-6.1 Sol?

GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; GPT-6.1 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or GPT-6.1 Sol better for coding?

GPT-6.1 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.4 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6.1 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-6.1 Sol share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6.1 Sol has 2.

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