Model comparison

GPT-4o vs GPT-5.4 mini

GPT-5.4 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI

45.0

Rank #76 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 mini in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 mini leads 45.5 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.4% for GPT-4o and 88.9% for GPT-5.4 mini.
  • GPT-5.4 mini is cheaper at $0.75 / $4.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • GPT-5.4 mini accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GPT-4o and GPT-5.4 mini specifications
GPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index28.645.0
Released2024-05-132026-03-17
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K400K
Max output16K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$10$4.50
Results tracked7246

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), GPT-5.4 mini: 45.2 (#72)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
WeirdML25.1%60.3%
LMArena Coding12971438
SWE-bench Verified31%—
FrontierCode—27%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1397
SciCode—49.9%
GSO0%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
ALE-Bench—1,189
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), GPT-5.4 mini: 29.9 (#81)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
DeepResearch Bench—36.3%
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), GPT-5.4 mini: 30.4 (#85)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
ARC-AGI-20%18.9%
ARC-AGI-14.5%63.7%
CritPt0%10%
Chess Puzzles13%24%
LMArena Hard Prompts12811424
DTBench64.5%80%
LMCA16.6%40.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97148.84
ForecastBench57.757
SimpleBench17.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—61.8%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
Thematic Generalization—61.7%
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—11%
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), GPT-5.4 mini: 45.5 (#75)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%51.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%88.9%
LMArena Math12851419
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%28.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—9.8%
ProofBench—21%
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), GPT-5.4 mini: 51.5 (#67)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
GPQA Diamond49.2%86.9%
SimpleQA Verified26%29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%5.5%
LMArena Expert12501435
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), GPT-5.4 mini: 39.7 (#56)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
LMArena Vision11371245
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), GPT-5.4 mini: 51.9 (#96)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
LMArena Non-English12831405
LMArena Chinese12771446
LMArena French13041440
LMArena German12821409
LMArena Japanese12571374
LMArena Korean12341368
LMArena Russian12861417
LMArena Spanish12921405

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), GPT-5.4 mini: 74.1 (#102)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
LMArena Instruction Following12781405
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), GPT-5.4 mini: 43.0 (#112)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
LMArena Longer Query12891407
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), GPT-5.4 mini: 64.0 (#58)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGPT-5.4 mini
LMArena Text13001412
LMArena Creative Writing12921370
LMArena Multi-Turn13021429
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1665
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than GPT-5.4 mini?

GPT-5.4 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or GPT-5.4 mini?

GPT-5.4 mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $4.50 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is GPT-4o or GPT-5.4 mini better for coding?

GPT-5.4 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.2 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 mini does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and GPT-5.4 mini share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 mini has 46.

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