Noometry

Model comparison

o1-mini vs o4-mini

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where o4-mini leads 24.6 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 14% for o1-mini and 58.7% for o4-mini.

Side by side

o1-minio4-mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index34.041.6
Released2024-09-122025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked3960

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Category by category

Coding o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 35.5 (#224), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
Aider Polyglot32.9%72%
WeirdML36.3%52.6%
LMArena Coding13621368
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
GSO—3.6%
LiveBench Coding48%—
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+78.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 24.6 (#118), o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 8.8 (#346), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
ARC-AGI-20.8%6.1%
SimpleBench18.1%38.7%
ARC-AGI-114%58.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331351
Epoch Capabilities Index135.82145.64
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
LiveBench Reasoning72.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA—26.5%
ForecastBench—61.8
LiveBench57.8%—

Math o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 35.4 (#186), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202546.9%81.7%
LMArena Math13581389
MATH Level 589.2%97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%24.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
Omni-MATH—72%
LiveBench Math62%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 34.9 (#192), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
GPQA Diamond62.4%79.6%
Confabulations18.6%15.8%
LMArena Expert13161343
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

o1-mini: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 43.6 (#182), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
LMArena Non-English12891337
LMArena Chinese13141354
LMArena French12931364
LMArena German12781336
LMArena Japanese12451308
LMArena Korean12231312
LMArena Russian12831334
LMArena Spanish13031347

Instruction Following o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 66.7 (#206), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
LMArena Instruction Following13041321
LiveBench Instruction Following65.4%—
IFEval—92.8%

Long Context o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 40.1 (#161), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
LMArena Longer Query13201315
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%

Writing & Preference o4-mini leads

o1-mini: 48.4 (#202), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Benchmarko1-minio4-mini
LMArena Text13171353
LMArena Creative Writing12441294
Short-Story Creative Writing64.9%75%
LMArena Multi-Turn13141350
WildBench—85.4%
LiveBench Language40.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1-mini better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is o1-mini or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o1-mini and o4-mini share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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