# Claude 2.1 vs GPT-4.1 mini

> GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-gpt-4-1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 mini in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 15.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.9% for Claude 2.1 and 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 33.6 |
| Rank | 345 | 240 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | 37.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 23.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4% |
| SciCode | — | 40.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1367 |
| CadEval | — | 16% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2.1: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 50.5% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 68.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 135.01 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 48.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 3.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1349 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| LMCA | — | 21.1% |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 44.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 49.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1343 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 87.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 65.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 61.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1338 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2.1: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1181 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1318 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1329 |
| LMArena French | — | 1358 |
| LMArena German | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1290 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1319 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 90.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1333 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1344 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1300 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 83.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1354 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

GPT-4.1 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.6 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and GPT-4.1 mini share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.