Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. o4-mini offers 234.5K more tokens in context window than GPT-4. o4-mini is $84.50 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4 is a multimodal language model developed by OpenAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 77.7% across 12 benchmarks. It excels particularly in AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) (96.3%), HellaSwag (95.3%), Uniform Bar Exam (90.0%). The model is available through 2 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly.
OpenAI
o4-mini is a multimodal language model developed by OpenAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 66.5% across 14 benchmarks. It excels particularly in AIME 2024 (93.4%), AIME 2025 (92.7%), MathVista (84.3%). It supports a 300K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents OpenAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
1 year newer
GPT-4
OpenAI
2023-06-13
o4-mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GPT-4
o4-mini
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 25 common benchmarks
GPT-4
o4-mini
GPT-4
2022-12-31
o4-mini
2024-05-31
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4
Azure
OpenAI
GPT-4
o4-mini
GPT-4
o4-mini
o4-mini
OpenAI