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Claude Opus 4.1vsGPT-4o mini
Claude Opus 4.1 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. GPT-4o mini is 120x cheaper per token. Claude Opus 4.1 has the larger context window (200K tokens).
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Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Cheaper per token
GPT-4o mini
120x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.1
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.2446%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic · released 2025-08-05
textvision
GPT-4o mini
OpenAI · released 2024-07-18
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 3 only Claude Opus 4.1 · 3 only GPT-4o mini| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | GPT-4o mini | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 77.3% ↗epoch | 40.2% ↗ | +37.1 pt | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 12.6% ↗epoch | 0.7% ↗epoch | +11.9 pt | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 68.9% ↗epoch | 6.9% ↗epoch | +62 pt | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Only Claude Opus 4.1 reports · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 73.3% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-4o mini reports · 3 | ||||
| MMLU | not reported | 82% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | not reported | 8.6% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 8.3% ↗epoch | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.1 minus GPT-4o mini in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.1 | GPT-4o mini | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 128K tokens | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Max output | 32K tokens | 16K tokens | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Input price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | GPT-4o mini |
| Output price / 1M | $75 ↗ | $0.6 ↗ | GPT-4o mini |
| Cached input / 1M | $1.5 ↗ | $0.075 ↗ | GPT-4o mini |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $90 | $0.75 | GPT-4o mini |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-08-05 | 2024-07-18 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 6 | 7 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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