Model comparison
GPT-4.1 mini vs Nova Premier 1.0
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4.1 mini costs 7.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 1 category and Nova Premier 1.0 in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 23.0 to 10.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 49.1% for GPT-4.1 mini and 35% for Nova Premier 1.0.
- GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
Side by side
| GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 33.6 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2025-04-14 | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1M |
| Max output | 33K | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.60 | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 47 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| 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
GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 50.5% | — |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 48.6% | 44.8% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 3.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1349 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | — |
| DTBench | 68.8% | — |
| LMCA | 21.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.01 | — |
Math Nova Premier 1.0 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 49.1% | 35% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 44.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1343 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 87.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | — |
Knowledge Nova Premier 1.0 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3% | 72.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 61.4% | 51.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | 65.8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1181 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 90.4% | 80.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1333 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | — |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 83.8% | 78.8% |
| LMArena Text | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1300 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1147 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1354 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4.1 mini costs 7.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Nova Premier 1.0's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Nova Premier 1.0?
GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.