# GPT-4.1 vs o4-mini

> o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 35.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-1-vs-o4-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 50

## Summary

- They share 50 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 3 categories and o4-mini in 7 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o4-mini leads 40.2 to 21.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 5.5% for GPT-4.1 and 58.7% for o4-mini.
- o4-mini is cheaper at $1.10 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for GPT-4.1.
- GPT-4.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.7 | 41.6 |
| Rank | 215 | 119 |
| Context | 1.05M | 200K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1.10 |
| Output $/M | $8 | $4.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-4.1: 34.2 (#228)
- o4-mini: 41.6 (#110)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 39.6% | 45% |
| Aider Polyglot | 52.4% | 72% |
| WeirdML | 39% | 52.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1391 | 1369 |
| CadEval | 42% | 62% |
| ALE-Bench | 558.1 | 826.17 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 48.5% | — |
| GSO | — | 3.6% |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.72 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#40)
- o4-mini: 32.3 (#57)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 54% | 53.2% |
| GDPval | — | 25.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 63.9% |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#334)
- o4-mini: 24.6 (#143)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.4% | 6.1% |
| SimpleBench | 27% | 38.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | 58.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | 26% |
| EnigmaEval | 2.2% | 9.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | 1351 |
| DTBench | 68.3% | 77.6% |
| LMCA | 25.6% | 26.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.79 | 145.63 |
| ForecastBench | 61.5 | 61.8 |
| CritPt | — | 0.6% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |

## Math

- GPT-4.1: 21.4 (#269)
- o4-mini: 40.2 (#79)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6% | 36.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 38.3% | 81.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 47.1% | 72% |
| LMArena Math | 1369 | 1390 |
| MATH Level 5 | 83% | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.5% | 24.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | 6.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4.1: 37.0 (#152)
- o4-mini: 43.5 (#83)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 66.9% | 79.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4% | 18.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 31.1% | 19.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.1% | 82% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.6% | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.9% | 73.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1364 | 1344 |
| Confabulations | — | 15.8% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4.1: 37.5 (#66)
- o4-mini: 39.5 (#46)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1210 | 1194 |
| GeoBench | 72% | 64% |
| VPCT | — | 57.5% |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4.1: 49.6 (#128)
- o4-mini: 47.2 (#149)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1370 | 1336 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1382 | 1355 |
| LMArena French | 1383 | 1362 |
| LMArena German | 1380 | 1336 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1320 | 1308 |
| LMArena Korean | 1339 | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | 1377 | 1334 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1375 | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4.1: 71.5 (#148)
- o4-mini: 75.4 (#63)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.8% | 92.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1367 | 1321 |

## Long Context

- GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#158)
- o4-mini: 45.5 (#31)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 63.9% | 77.8% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1385 | 1315 |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4.1: 57.8 (#120)
- o4-mini: 54.2 (#148)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | o4-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1383 | 1353 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1363 | 1294 |
| WildBench | 85.4% | 85.4% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1398 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1420 | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4.1 better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 35.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or o4-mini?

o4-mini is cheaper. It lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.

### Is GPT-4.1 or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and o4-mini share?

50 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.