vs
5:9
overall capability wins (0 ties across 14 scored). o4-mini leads overall.
- Reasoning2:5
- Coding1:3
- Arena1:0
- Pricing0:3
- Speed2:0
- Specs1:1
Verdict
o4-mini leads coding (widest gap: +8.4 on SciCode); GPT-4.1 ranks higher on LMArena (+24 Elo); GPT-4.1 offers ~5.0x larger context (1M vs 200K).
- o4-mini leads coding (widest gap: +8.4 on SciCode)
- GPT-4.1 ranks higher on LMArena (+24 Elo)
- GPT-4.1 offers ~5.0x larger context (1M vs 200K)
- o4-mini allows ~3.1x more max output (100K vs 33K)
- o4-mini is ~1.8x 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
- o4-mini
- $2.20
o4-mini is about 1.8x 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 16, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1M
200K
Max output
33K
100K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$1.10
Output $/1M
$8
$4.40
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3.50
$1.93
Speed
tok/s
95
90
TTFT (s)
0.35
0.7
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
80.6
—
GPQA Diamond
66.6
78.4
Humanity's Last Exam
4.2
16.5
AIME 2025
46.4
92.7
MATH-500
91.3
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
27.8
24.8
AA-LCR v1.1
68.3
61.0
CritPt
—
0.6
MMMU-Pro
61.2
69.2
IFBench
43.0
68.7
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
39.6
45.0
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
45.7
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
52.4
58.2
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
38.1
46.5
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
30.1
27.5
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,415
1,391
| Metric | GPT-4.1 | o4-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 16, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06 | - | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 200K | A +800K |
| Max output | 33K | 100K | B +67K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2 | $1.10 | B +$0.90 |
| Output $/1M | $8 | $4.40 | B +$3.60 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3.50 | $1.93 | B +$1.57 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 95 | 90 | A +5.00 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 0.7 | A +0.35 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 80.6 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 66.6 | 78.4 | B +11.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.2 | 16.5 | B +12.3 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 46.4 | 92.7 | B +46.3 pts |
| MATH-500 | 91.3 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 27.8 | 24.8 | A +3.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 68.3 | 61.0 | A +7.3 pts |
| CritPt | — | 0.6 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 61.2 | 69.2 | B +8.0 pts |
| IFBench | 43.0 | 68.7 | B +25.7 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 39.6 | 45.0 | B +5.4 pts |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 45.7 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 52.4 | 58.2 | B +5.8 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 38.1 | 46.5 | B +8.4 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 30.1 | 27.5 | A +2.6 pts |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,415 | 1,391 | A +24 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.
o4-mini
- Context
- 200K / 100K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.10 / $4.40
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.7s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cost-efficient o-series reasoning model for STEM and coding with lower latency than o3.
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