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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-4.1 mini
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 32.3% higher average benchmark score. GPT-4.1 mini offers 816.3K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4.5. GPT-4.1 mini is $16.00 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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OpenAI
GPT-4.1 Mini was created as a smaller, more efficient variant of GPT-4.1, designed to provide strong capabilities with reduced computational requirements. Built to serve applications where speed and cost are priorities while maintaining solid performance, it extends the GPT-4.1 capabilities to resource-conscious deployments.
5 months newer
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-14
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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GPT-4.1 mini
Input:$0.40
Output:$1.60($16.00 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Average Score:82.2%(+32.3%)
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GPT-4.1 mini
Average Score:49.9%
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Coding77.2%(+53.6%)
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GPT-4.1 mini
Coding23.6%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
GPT-4.1 mini
2024-05-31
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
2 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Avg Score:82.2%(+32.3%)
Providers:2
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GPT-4.1 mini
Avg Score:49.9%
Providers:2