Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4 mini leads with 3.9% higher average benchmark score. GPT-4.1 mini offers 732.8K more tokens in context window than o4 mini. GPT-4.1 mini is $3.50 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a smaller variant from the GPT-4.1 family designed for efficient, cost-effective deployments requiring long-context understanding. It features a 1M token context window and native image understanding, with maintained coding and instruction-following capabilities relative to its size. GPT-4.1 mini targets applications needing a balance between response speed, cost, and capability, such as production APIs with high request volumes.
OpenAI
OpenAI o4 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the o4 family that combines multimodal understanding with efficient chain-of-thought processing. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with strong performance on mathematics and coding benchmarks relative to its inference cost. o4 mini targets cost-sensitive applications requiring both visual reasoning and mathematical accuracy.
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GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-14

o4 mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
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Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Available providers and their performance metrics
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