Model comparison

GPT-5 Mini vs Nemotron 4 340b Instruct

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.7

Rank #115 Confirmed

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct NVIDIA

35.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Mini scores higher in 8 categories and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Mini leads 46.3 to 31.7.
  • Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Mini and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct specifications
GPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
ProviderOpenAINVIDIA
Noometry Index41.735.3
Released2025-08-072024-06-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$2—
Results tracked6017

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 40.0 (#134), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.6 (#223)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Coding14061209
SWE-bench Verified64.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)59.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%—
SciCode39.2%—
WeirdML52.7%—
ALE-Bench799.77—
AlgoTune1.38—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 31.0 (#64), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
Terminal-Bench34.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.5%—
Vending-Bench 2-31.18—

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 24.1 (#153), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 22.4 (#180)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13801202
ARC-AGI-24.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-154.3%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
EnigmaEval8.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles10%—
DTBench80.5%—
LMCA34.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.51—
ForecastBench61—

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 46.3 (#59), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.7 (#193)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Math13771216
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%—
ProofBench9%—
Omni-MATH72.2%—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 45.5 (#80), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.4 (#212)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Expert13771171
GPQA Diamond75%—
Humanity's Last Exam19.4%—
SimpleQA Verified21.6%—
MMLU-Pro83.5%—
Confabulations13.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.9%—
GPQA (HELM)75.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 35.0 (#80), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Vision1202—
VPCT40.2%—

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 49.1 (#131), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 38.0 (#228)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Non-English13631206
LMArena Chinese13871214
LMArena French13851196
LMArena German13661192
LMArena Japanese13421128
LMArena Korean13061148
LMArena Russian13621219
LMArena Spanish13551195

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 76.4 (#43), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.3 (#227)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13571203
IFEval92.7%—

Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#127), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#216)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13551225
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 55.4 (#143), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.9 (#229)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Text13731225
LMArena Creative Writing13251203
LMArena Multi-Turn13631214
Short-Story Creative Writing83.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1313—
WildBench85.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Nemotron 4 340b Instruct?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 Mini or Nemotron 4 340b Instruct better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Mini and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17.

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