# Claude 3 Sonnet vs GPT-4.1 mini

> GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-sonnet-vs-gpt-4-1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 21.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 33.5 |
| Rank | 311 | 232 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 48.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1367 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 23.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4% |
| SciCode | — | 40.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| CadEval | — | 16% |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Sonnet: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 50.5% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1349 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 68.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.69 | 135.01 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 48.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 3.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| LMCA | — | 21.1% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 44.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1343 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 87.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 49.1% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 65.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1338 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 61.4% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1181 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1318 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1188 | 1329 |
| LMArena French | 1228 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1291 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1319 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1200 | 1332 |
| IFEval | — | 90.4% |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1341 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1300 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1354 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 83.8% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

GPT-4.1 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.4 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and GPT-4.1 mini share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.