vs
1:7
overall capability wins (0 ties across 8 scored). GPT-4.1 Mini leads overall.
- Reasoning1:4
- Arena0:1
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:2
Verdict
GPT-4.1 Mini edges reasoning & knowledge; GPT-4.1 Mini ranks higher on LMArena (+95 Elo); GPT-4.1 Mini offers ~122.1x larger context (1M vs 8K).
- GPT-4.1 Mini edges reasoning & knowledge
- GPT-4.1 Mini ranks higher on LMArena (+95 Elo)
- GPT-4.1 Mini offers ~122.1x larger context (1M vs 8K)
- GPT-4.1 Mini allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- GPT-4.1 Mini is ~53.6x cheaper on a blended token basis than GPT-4
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- GPT-4
- $45
- GPT-4.1 Mini
- $0.80
GPT-4.1 Mini is about 56.3x 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
Mar 14, 2023
Apr 14, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
8K
1M
Max output
8K
33K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$30
$0.40
Output $/1M
$60
$1.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$37.50
$0.70
Speed
tok/s
35
130
TTFT (s)
0.8
0.25
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
56.2
78.1
GPQA Diamond
34.9
66.4
Humanity's Last Exam
—
5.0
AIME 2025
—
40.2
MATH-500
56.8
92.5
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
21.0
20.3
AA-LCR v1.1
—
44.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
58.7
IFBench
33.2
38.3
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
23.9
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
48.3
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
10.1
Aider Polyglot
—
32.4
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
48.9
SciCode
—
40.4
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
25.5
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,288
1,383
| Metric | GPT-4 | 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 | Mar 14, 2023 | Apr 14, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 8K | 1M | B +992K |
| Max output | 8K | 33K | B +25K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $30 | $0.40 | B +$29.60 |
| Output $/1M | $60 | $1.60 | B +$58.40 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $37.50 | $0.70 | B +$36.80 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 35 | 130 | B +95 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.8 | 0.25 | B +0.55 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 56.2 | 78.1 | B +21.9 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 34.9 | 66.4 | B +31.5 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.0 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | 40.2 | — |
| MATH-500 | 56.8 | 92.5 | B +35.7 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 21.0 | 20.3 | A +0.7 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 44.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 58.7 | — |
| IFBench | 33.2 | 38.3 | B +5.1 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 23.9 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 48.3 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 10.1 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | 48.9 | — |
| SciCode | — | 40.4 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 25.5 | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,288 | 1,383 | B +95 Elo |
GPT-4
- Context
- 8K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $30 / $60
- Speed
- 35 tok/s · 0.8s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Original GPT-4 (gpt-4-0613) — 8K-context text flagship that defined the 2023 API era before Turbo / 4o.
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.
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