Model comparison

GPT-5.4 Pro vs o4-mini

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.9 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index. o4-mini costs 35× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI

58.9

Rank #18 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and o4-mini in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 Pro leads 70.7 to 24.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 83.3% for GPT-5.4 Pro and 6.1% for o4-mini.
  • o4-mini is cheaper at $1.10 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $180 for GPT-5.4 Pro.
  • GPT-5.4 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 Pro and o4-mini specifications
GPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index58.941.6
Released2026-03-052025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$30$1.10
Output $ / M tokens$180$4.40
Results tracked1660

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 43.2 (#90), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
WeirdML57.4%52.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
GSO—3.6%
LMArena Coding—1368
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 70.7 (#13), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
ARC-AGI-283.3%6.1%
SimpleBench74.1%38.7%
ARC-AGI-194.5%58.7%
CritPt30%0.6%
Chess Puzzles58.6%26%
EnigmaEval23.8%9.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.93145.64
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1351
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LMCA—26.5%
ForecastBench—61.8

Math GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 72.4 (#22), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)82.5%36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 458.5%4.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)50%24.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)37.5%6.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.7%
Omni-MATH—72%
LMArena Math—1389
MATH Level 5—97.8%

Knowledge GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 68.3 (#7), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
GPQA Diamond94.6%79.6%
Humanity's Last Exam44.3%18.1%
SimpleQA Verified46.3%19.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.3%18.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%
LMArena Expert—1343

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
LMArena Non-English—1337
LMArena Chinese—1354
LMArena French—1364
LMArena German—1336
LMArena Japanese—1308
LMArena Korean—1312
LMArena Russian—1334
LMArena Spanish—1347

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
IFEval—92.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1321

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1315

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 Proo4-mini
LMArena Text—1353
LMArena Creative Writing—1294
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1350

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 Pro better than o4-mini?

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.9 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index. o4-mini costs 35× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 Pro or o4-mini?

o4-mini is cheaper. It lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 Pro lists at $30 and $180.

Is GPT-5.4 Pro or o4-mini better for coding?

GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.2 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 Pro and o4-mini share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 Pro has 16 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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