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Claude Sonnet 4vsGPT-4.1 nano
Claude Sonnet 4 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. GPT-4.1 nano is 36x cheaper per token. GPT-4.1 nano has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Cheaper per token
GPT-4.1 nano
36x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-4.1 nano
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 95.1515%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · released 2025-05-22
textvision
GPT-4.1 nano
OpenAI · released 2025-04-14
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 2 only Claude Sonnet 4 · 4 only GPT-4.1 nano| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-4.1 nano | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% ↗epoch | 50.3% ↗ | +28.9 pt | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 71.1% ↗epoch | 28.9% ↗epoch | +42.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4 reports · 2 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2024 (no extended thinking) | 33.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-4.1 nano reports · 4 | ||||
| MMLU | not reported | 80.1% ↗ | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | not reported | 9.8% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | not reported | 29.4% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 6% ↗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 Sonnet 4 minus GPT-4.1 nano 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 Sonnet 4 | GPT-4.1 nano | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1.0M tokens | GPT-4.1 nano |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 33K tokens | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $0.1 ↗ | GPT-4.1 nano |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $0.4 ↗ | GPT-4.1 nano |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.025 ↗ | GPT-4.1 nano |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $0.5 | GPT-4.1 nano |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-04-14 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 7 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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