# GPT-4.1 mini vs Grok 4.1

> Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-1-mini-vs-grok-4-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.1 in 9 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.1 leads 28.3 to 10.9.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.5 | 40.8 |
| Rank | 232 | 135 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.60 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286)
- Grok 4.1: 33.4 (#246)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1445 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 23.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.4% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1214 |
| SciCode | 40.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| CadEval | 16% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52)
- Grok 4.1: 33.8 (#47)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 50.5% | — |
| Cybench | — | 39% |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335)
- Grok 4.1: 28.3 (#91)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1349 | 1436 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 48.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 3.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | — |
| DTBench | 68.8% | — |
| LMCA | 21.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.01 | — |

## Math

- GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264)
- Grok 4.1: 36.2 (#124)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1343 | 1422 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 44.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 49.1% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 87.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183)
- Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#129)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 65.8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 61.4% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77)
- Grok 4.1: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1181 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161)
- Grok 4.1: 53.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | 1425 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1329 | 1464 |
| LMArena French | 1357 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1349 | 1447 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1291 | 1396 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1407 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1319 | 1438 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113)
- Grok 4.1: 74.0 (#106)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1332 | 1400 |
| IFEval | 90.4% | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270)
- Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#96)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1416 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193)
- Grok 4.1: 62.6 (#71)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1341 | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1300 | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1354 | 1438 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1147 | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Grok 4.1?

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 33.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-4.1 mini or Grok 4.1 better for coding?

Grok 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.4 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.