Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Wizardlm 70b

GPT-4.1 mini and Wizardlm 70b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.6 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Wizardlm 70b Microsoft

33.0

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 3 categories and Wizardlm 70b in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 73.7 to 56.3.
  • Wizardlm 70b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 mini and Wizardlm 70b specifications
GPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index33.633.0
Released2025-04-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$1.60—
Results tracked4712

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Coding13671081
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Wizardlm 70b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Wizardlm 70b leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Hard Prompts13491079
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math Wizardlm 70b leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Math13431116
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Wizardlm 70b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
GPQA Diamond65.8%—
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
LMArena Expert1338—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Wizardlm 70b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Non-English13181078
LMArena Chinese13291052
LMArena German13511083
LMArena Russian13241155
LMArena French1358—
LMArena Japanese1290—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Instruction Following13331093
IFEval90.4%—

Long Context Wizardlm 70b leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Longer Query13441097
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniWizardlm 70b
LMArena Text13401120
LMArena Creative Writing13001149
LMArena Multi-Turn13541108
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Wizardlm 70b?

GPT-4.1 mini and Wizardlm 70b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.6 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.6 vs 31.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.

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