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Claude 3.5 SonnetvsGPT-4.1 mini
GPT-4.1 mini leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. GPT-4.1 mini is 9x cheaper per token. GPT-4.1 mini has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 2
GPT-4.1 mini leads
Cheaper per token
GPT-4.1 mini
9x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-4.1 mini
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.2446%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic · released 2024-10-22
textvision
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI · released 2025-04-14
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 2 only Claude 3.5 Sonnet · 4 only GPT-4.1 mini| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% ↗epoch | 65% ↗ | -9.7 pt | GPT-4.1 mini |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 8.5% ↗epoch | 44.7% ↗epoch | -36.2 pt | GPT-4.1 mini |
| Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet reports · 2 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 49% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 3.3% ↗matharena | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-4.1 mini reports · 4 | ||||
| MMLU | not reported | 87.5% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | not reported | 49.6% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 6.7% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 12.7% ↗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 3.5 Sonnet minus GPT-4.1 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 3.5 Sonnet | GPT-4.1 mini | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1.0M tokens | GPT-4.1 mini |
| Max output | 8K tokens | 33K tokens | GPT-4.1 mini |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $0.4 ↗ | GPT-4.1 mini |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $1.6 ↗ | GPT-4.1 mini |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.1 ↗ | GPT-4.1 mini |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $2 | GPT-4.1 mini |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2025-04-14 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 7 | — |
Reliability
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