Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

GPT-5.4 has enough public results to be ranked (#14); GPT-6.1 Sol does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.5

Rank #14 Confirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI

42.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-6.1 Sol in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GPT-5.4 leads 46.5 to 34.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DeepSWE: 51.8% for GPT-5.4 and 75.2% for GPT-6.1 Sol.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol is cheaper at $2 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and GPT-6.1 Sol specifications
GPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index59.542.1
Released2026-03-052026-09-29
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$2
Output $ / M tokens$15$10
Results tracked682

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 52.8 (#28), GPT-6.1 Sol: 51.4

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
DeepSWE51.8%75.2%
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
WeirdML77.7%—
LMArena Coding1497—
MirrorCode15.6%—
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#12), GPT-6.1 Sol: 34.3

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
GBAEval45.1%—
GDP.pdf—32%
LMArena Search1197—
METR Time Horizons74.3%—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 61.7 (#17), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
ARC-AGI-274%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-193.7%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench94.4%—
LMCA52%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.92—
ForecastBench59.5—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 73.3 (#14), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#13), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
GPQA Diamond93.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
LMArena Expert1507—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.8 (#19), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Vision1302—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 56.4 (#22), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Non-English1465—
LMArena Chinese1520—
LMArena French1493—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1449—
LMArena Russian1480—
LMArena Spanish1453—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 77.3 (#25), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following1469—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1474—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 72.1 (#18), GPT-6.1 Sol: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Text1469—
LMArena Creative Writing1439—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41272—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than GPT-6.1 Sol?

GPT-5.4 has enough public results to be ranked (#14); GPT-6.1 Sol does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 or GPT-6.1 Sol?

GPT-6.1 Sol is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Is GPT-5.4 or GPT-6.1 Sol better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.8 versus 51.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1.05M tokens.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and GPT-6.1 Sol share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6.1 Sol has 2.

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