Model comparison
GPT-4.1 mini vs Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
GPT-4.1 mini and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.5 vs 32.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 5 categories and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads 22.9 to 10.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini and 42.7% for Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B.
- Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 33.5 | 32.6 |
| Released | 2025-04-14 | 2024-11-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 33K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 47 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 35.4 (#211)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1236 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 23.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.4% | — |
| SciCode | 40.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| CadEval | 16% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 50.5% | — |
Reasoning Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 22.9 (#172)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1349 | 1220 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 48.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 3.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | — |
| DTBench | 68.8% | — |
| LMCA | 21.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.01 | — |
Math GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 13.3 (#297)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 44.7% | 4.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1343 | 1242 |
| MATH Level 5 | 87.3% | 42.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 49.1% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | — |
Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 25.1 (#257)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.8% | 46.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 61.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1181 | — |
Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 40.1 (#217)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | 1236 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1329 | 1249 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1246 |
| LMArena French | 1357 | — |
| LMArena German | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1291 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1319 | — |
Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 65.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1332 | 1233 |
| IFEval | 90.4% | — |
Long Context Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 37.1 (#217)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1224 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 45.8 (#218)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1341 | 1256 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1300 | 1231 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1354 | 1252 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1147 | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B?
GPT-4.1 mini and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.5 vs 32.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is GPT-4.1 mini or Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B better for coding?
Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has 14.