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Claude Sonnet 4vsGPT-4o mini
Claude Sonnet 4 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. GPT-4o mini is 24x cheaper per token. Claude Sonnet 4 has the larger context window (200K 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-4o mini
24x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 4
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 95.2096%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · released 2025-05-22
textvision
GPT-4o mini
OpenAI · released 2024-07-18
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 2 only Claude Sonnet 4 · 4 only GPT-4o mini| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | GPT-4o mini | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% ↗epoch | 40.2% ↗ | +39 pt | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 71.1% ↗epoch | 6.9% ↗epoch | +64.2 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-4o mini reports · 4 | ||||
| MMLU | not reported | 82% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2024 | not reported | 8.6% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 0.7% ↗epoch | — | — |
| 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 Sonnet 4 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 Sonnet 4 | GPT-4o mini | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 128K tokens | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 16K tokens | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | GPT-4o mini |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | $0.6 ↗ | GPT-4o mini |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.075 ↗ | GPT-4o mini |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | $0.75 | GPT-4o mini |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2024-07-18 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 7 | — |
Reliability
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