Model comparison

GPT-4o vs o1-pro

o1-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4o costs 60× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1-pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

o1-pro OpenAI

31.5

Rank #271 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 0 categories and o1-pro in 2 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where o1-pro leads 20.4 to 9.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 4.5% for GPT-4o and 23.3% for o1-pro.
  • GPT-4o is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 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 and o1-pro specifications
GPT-4oo1-pro
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index28.631.5
Released2024-05-132025-03-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K200K
Max output16K100K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$150
Output $ / M tokens$10$600
Results tracked723

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), o1-pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1297—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), o1-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning o1-pro leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), o1-pro: 20.4 (#239)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
ARC-AGI-14.5%23.3%
EnigmaEval0.8%6.1%
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1281—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Not comparable

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), o1-pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
LMArena Math1285—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Too close to call

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), o1-pro: 29.7 (#234)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%8.1%
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), o1-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), o1-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), o1-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1278—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), o1-pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1289—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), o1-pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oo1-pro
LMArena Text1300—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1302—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than o1-pro?

o1-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4o costs 60× 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 or o1-pro?

GPT-4o is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 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 and o1-pro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and o1-pro has 3.

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