Model comparison
GPT-4o vs o4-mini
o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 53 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 53 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o4-mini leads 40.8 to 10.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.4% for GPT-4o and 81.7% for o4-mini.
- o4-mini is cheaper at $1.10 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
- o4-mini accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| GPT-4o | o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 28.6 | 41.6 |
| Released | 2024-05-13 | 2025-04-16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | 200K |
| Max output | 16K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 72 | 60 |
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Category by category
Coding o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21.6% | 45% |
| Aider Polyglot | 45.3% | 72% |
| GSO | 0% | 3.6% |
| WeirdML | 25.1% | 52.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1297 | 1368 |
| CadEval | 26% | 62% |
| SWE-bench Verified | 31% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 51.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 826.17 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |
| HumanEval+ | 87.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GDPval | 9.9% | 25.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | 40.8% | 63.9% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 53.2% |
| TheAgentCompany | 8.6% | — |
| Cybench | 12.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1006 | — |
Reasoning o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 6.1% |
| SimpleBench | 17.8% | 38.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.5% | 58.7% |
| CritPt | 0% | 0.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | 13% | 26% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | 9.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 1351 |
| DTBench | 64.5% | 77.6% |
| LMCA | 16.6% | 26.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.97 | 145.64 |
| ForecastBench | 57.7 | 61.8 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 55.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| LiveBench | 55.3% | — |
Math o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.4% | 36.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.4% | 81.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 29.3% | 72% |
| LMArena Math | 1285 | 1389 |
| MATH Level 5 | 53.3% | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 49.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 6.3% |
Knowledge o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.2% | 79.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 2.7% | 18.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 26% | 19.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 71.3% | 82% |
| Confabulations | 15.3% | 15.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.6% | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52% | 73.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1250 | 1343 |
| MMLU | 88.1% | — |
Multimodal o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1137 | 1194 |
| GeoBench | 71% | 64% |
| VPCT | 40% | 57.5% |
| Video-MME | 71.9% | — |
| ScienceQA | 88.5% | — |
Multilingual o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1354 |
| LMArena French | 1304 | 1364 |
| LMArena German | 1282 | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1257 | 1308 |
| LMArena Korean | 1234 | 1312 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1334 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1292 | 1347 |
Instruction Following o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.7% | 92.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1278 | 1321 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 68.6% | — |
Long Context o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | 77.8% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | 1315 |
Writing & Preference o4-mini leads
GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1300 | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1294 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.8% | 75% |
| WildBench | 82.8% | 85.4% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1302 | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | 47.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4o better than o4-mini?
o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or o4-mini?
o4-mini is cheaper. It lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is GPT-4o or o4-mini better for coding?
o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
o4-mini does, with 200K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and o4-mini share?
53 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.