Model comparison

GPT-6 Sol vs o1-mini

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

61.8

Rank #12 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-6 Sol scores higher in 9 categories and o1-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Sol leads 74.0 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 89.6% for GPT-6 Sol and 0.8% for o1-mini.

Side by side

GPT-6 Sol and o1-mini specifications
GPT-6 Solo1-mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index61.834.0
Released2026-09-222024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked4539

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
LMArena Coding14471362
DeepSWE68.8%—
FrontierCode49.3%—
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
LMArena WebDev1688—
SciCode57.6%—
WeirdML—36.3%
LiveBench Coding—48%
ALE-Bench2,462—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
APEX-Agents54.3%—
Cybench—10%
GDP.pdf26.4%—
Vending-Bench 214,428—

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
ARC-AGI-289.6%0.8%
ARC-AGI-195.5%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14181333
Epoch Capabilities Index162.72135.82
SimpleBench—18.1%
NYT Connections (extended)90.1%—
CritPt30.9%—
EBR-Bench53.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench97.3%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA59.1%—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%46.9%
LMArena Math14021358
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 490%—
ProofBench83%—
LiveBench Math—62%
MATH Level 5—89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
GPQA Diamond94.3%62.4%
LMArena Expert14391316
SimpleQA Verified60.7%—
Confabulations—18.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
LMArena Vision1245—
Blueprint-Bench 236.9%—
Furniture Assembly58.3%—

Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
LMArena Non-English13851289
LMArena Chinese14051314
LMArena French14101293
LMArena German13901278
LMArena Japanese13851245
LMArena Korean13411223
LMArena Russian14011283
LMArena Spanish13841303

Instruction Following GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14121304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
LMArena Longer Query14111320

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Solo1-mini
LMArena Text13951317
LMArena Creative Writing13781244
LMArena Multi-Turn14121314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2125—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6 Sol better than o1-mini?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-6 Sol or o1-mini better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.1 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Sol and o1-mini share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6 Sol has 45 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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