Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Granite 4.0 Micro

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 17× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1 mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 4 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini and 2.8% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderOpenAIIBM
Noometry Index33.629.0
Released2025-04-142025-10-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output33K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.017
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$0.11
Results tracked478

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding1367—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles7%0%
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1349—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%2.8%
Omni-MATH49.1%20.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
LMArena Math1343—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond65.8%28.3%
MMLU-Pro78.3%39.5%
GPQA (HELM)61.4%30.7%
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
LMArena Expert1338—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena Chinese1329—
LMArena French1358—
LMArena German1351—
LMArena Japanese1290—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
IFEval90.4%84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1333—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.0 Micro
WildBench83.8%67%
LMArena Text1340—
LMArena Creative Writing1300—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
LMArena Multi-Turn1354—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 17× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1 mini's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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