# Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-4.1 mini

> Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-4-argon-vs-gpt-4-1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 24.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 27.1% for Gemini 4 Argon and 0% for GPT-4.1 mini.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 56.5 | 33.6 |
| Rank | 24 | 240 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 61.8% | 40.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1550 | 1367 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 23.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1678 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 55% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.9% |
| CadEval | — | 16% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 82.2% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 50.5% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 13,718 | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 27.1% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1548 | 1349 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 48.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 3.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LMCA | — | 21.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.01 |

## Math

- Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1536 | 1343 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 44.7% |
| ProofBench | 99% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 49.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 87.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1553 | 1338 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 61.4% |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1181 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 54.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1523 | 1318 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1610 | 1329 |
| LMArena Russian | 1537 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1497 | 1319 |
| LMArena French | — | 1358 |
| LMArena German | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1290 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1298 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1538 | 1333 |
| IFEval | — | 90.4% |

## Long Context

- Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1549 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1534 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1531 | 1300 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1557 | 1354 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 83.8% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 4 Argon better than GPT-4.1 mini?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 4 Argon or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-4.1 mini share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.