Model comparison
GPT-4o mini vs o1-pro
o1-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4o mini costs 1000× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1-pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-pro leads 29.7 to 17.7.
- GPT-4o mini is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.
- o1-pro accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| GPT-4o mini | o1-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 31.5 |
| Released | 2024-07-18 | 2025-03-19 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 200K |
| Max output | 16K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $150 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | $600 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 3.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 11.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 43.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1290 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 83.5% | — |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 17.4% | — |
Reasoning o1-pro leads
GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347), o1-pro: 20.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 10.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 23.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 6.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 12% | — |
| DTBench | 54.4% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50% | — |
| LMCA | 10.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.56 | — |
| LiveBench | 41.3% | — |
| PIQA | 88.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1267 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 52.6% | — |
| GSM8K | 91.3% | — |
Knowledge o1-pro leads
GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284), o1-pro: 29.7 (#234)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 37.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 8.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 37.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1235 | — |
| BoolQ | 88.7% | — |
| MMLU | 81.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1066 | — |
| Video-MME | 64.8% | — |
| GeoBench | 64% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1266 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1265 | — |
| LMArena French | 1297 | — |
| LMArena German | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1195 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1276 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 56.8% | — |
| IFEval | 78.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1268 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 67.2% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 873 | — |
| WildBench | 79.1% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1285 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 28.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4o mini better than o1-pro?
o1-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4o mini costs 1000× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1-pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o mini or o1-pro?
GPT-4o mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.
Which has the bigger context window?
o1-pro does, with 200K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4o mini and o1-pro share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and o1-pro has 3.