vs
11:4
overall capability wins (2 ties across 17 scored). GPT-4.1 leads overall.
- Reasoning7:2
- Coding3:2
- Arena1:0
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
Verdict
GPT-4.1 leads coding (widest gap: +20.0 on Aider); GPT-4.1 ranks higher on LMArena (+32 Elo); GPT-4.1 Mini is ~5.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than GPT-4.1.
- GPT-4.1 leads coding (widest gap: +20.0 on Aider)
- GPT-4.1 ranks higher on LMArena (+32 Elo)
- GPT-4.1 Mini is ~5.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than GPT-4.1
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- GPT-4.1
- $4
- GPT-4.1 Mini
- $0.80
GPT-4.1 Mini is about 5.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
OpenAI
OpenAI
Family
GPT-4 / o-series
GPT-4 / o-series
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Apr 14, 2025
Apr 14, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
33K
33K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$0.40
Output $/1M
$8
$1.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3.50
$0.70
Speed
tok/s
95
130
TTFT (s)
0.35
0.25
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
80.6
78.1
GPQA Diamond
66.6
66.4
Humanity's Last Exam
4.2
5.0
AIME 2025
46.4
40.2
MATH-500
91.3
92.5
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
27.8
20.3
AA-LCR v1.1
68.3
44.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
61.2
58.7
IFBench
43.0
38.3
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
39.6
23.9
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
45.7
48.3
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
10.1
Aider Polyglot
52.4
32.4
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
48.9
SciCode
38.1
40.4
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
30.1
25.5
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,415
1,383
| Metric | GPT-4.1 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Family | GPT-4 / o-series | GPT-4 / o-series | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Apr 14, 2025 | Apr 14, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06 | - | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1M | tie |
| Max output | 33K | 33K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2 | $0.40 | B +$1.60 |
| Output $/1M | $8 | $1.60 | B +$6.40 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3.50 | $0.70 | B +$2.80 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 95 | 130 | B +35 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 0.25 | B +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 80.6 | 78.1 | A +2.5 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 66.6 | 66.4 | A +0.2 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.2 | 5.0 | B +0.8 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 46.4 | 40.2 | A +6.2 pts |
| MATH-500 | 91.3 | 92.5 | B +1.2 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 27.8 | 20.3 | A +7.5 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 68.3 | 44.0 | A +24.3 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 61.2 | 58.7 | A +2.5 pts |
| IFBench | 43.0 | 38.3 | A +4.7 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 39.6 | 23.9 | A +15.6 pts |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 45.7 | 48.3 | B +2.6 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 10.1 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 52.4 | 32.4 | A +20.0 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | 48.9 | — |
| SciCode | 38.1 | 40.4 | B +2.3 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 30.1 | 25.5 | A +4.6 pts |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,415 | 1,383 | A +32 Elo |
GPT-4.1
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2 / $8
- Speed
- 95 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Previous-gen OpenAI instruction model with 1M context; still useful for long-document workloads.
GPT-4.1 Mini
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.40 / $1.60
- Speed
- 130 tok/s · 0.25s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Mid-tier GPT-4.1 SKU with 1M context at low cost - common production default for long-document and tool workloads.
Benchmark charts
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