# GPT-4.1 vs Sonar

> Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 35.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-1-vs-sonar
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in math, where Sonar leads 31.3 to 21.4.
- Sonar is cheaper at $1 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for GPT-4.1.
- GPT-4.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 35.7 | 37.8 |
| Rank | 215 | 184 |
| Context | 1.05M | 128K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1 |
| Output $/M | $8 | $1 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- GPT-4.1: 34.2 (#228)
- Sonar: 35.1 (#217)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 48.5% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 39.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 52.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 39% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1391 | — |
| CadEval | 42% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 558.1 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#40)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 54% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#334)
- Sonar: 20.3 (#221)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.4% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 2.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | — |
| DTBench | 68.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| LMCA | 25.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.79 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.5 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |

## Math

- GPT-4.1: 21.4 (#269)
- Sonar: 31.3 (#197)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 38.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 47.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1369 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 83% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4.1: 37.0 (#152)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 66.9% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 31.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1364 | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4.1: 37.5 (#66)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1210 | — |
| GeoBench | 72% | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4.1: 49.6 (#128)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1382 | — |
| LMArena French | 1383 | — |
| LMArena German | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1320 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1339 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1377 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1375 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4.1: 71.5 (#148)
- Sonar: 71.5 (#146)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| IFEval | 83.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1367 | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#158)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 63.9% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1385 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4.1: 57.8 (#120)
- Sonar: 52.6 (#166)

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1383 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1363 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1420 | — |
| WildBench | 85.4% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1398 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4.1 better than Sonar?

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 35.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or Sonar?

Sonar is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.

### Is GPT-4.1 or Sonar better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.2 vs 35.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.