# GPT-4.1 mini vs Grok 4

> Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-1-mini-vs-grok-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 35

## Summary

- They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 2 categories and Grok 4 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 31.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 3.5% for GPT-4.1 mini and 66.7% for Grok 4.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.6 | 48.1 |
| Rank | 240 | 56 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $0.40 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.60 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)
- Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 32.4% | 79.6% |
| WeirdML | 37.6% | 45.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1408 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 23.9% | — |
| SciCode | 40.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| CadEval | 16% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)
- Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 50.5% | 63% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| GDPval | — | 21.1% |
| Cybench | — | 43% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 47.3% |
| BALROG | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 66.6% |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)
- Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 16% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 48.6% | 73.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 3.5% | 66.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | 28% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1349 | 1409 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.01 | 146.44 |
| SimpleBench | — | 60.5% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | — |
| DTBench | 68.8% | — |
| LMCA | 21.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.9 |

## Math

- GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)
- Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 44.7% | 84% |
| Omni-MATH | 49.1% | 60.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1343 | 1422 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | 19.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 87.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)
- Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.8% | 87% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3% | 85.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 61.4% | 72.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | 1415 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.7% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)
- Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1181 | 1210 |
| GeoBench | — | 45% |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)
- Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | 1403 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1329 | 1427 |
| LMArena French | 1358 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1351 | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1290 | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1377 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1410 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1319 | 1420 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)
- Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 90.4% | 94.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1333 | 1387 |

## Long Context

- GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)
- Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | 94.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1409 |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)
- Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1411 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1300 | 1397 |
| WildBench | 83.8% | 79.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1354 | 1416 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1147 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.