Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-5 family that delivers incremental improvements in reasoning, instruction following, and multimodal understanding over GPT-5. It features a 400K token context window and targets general-purpose development, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Thinking, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is an extended reasoning variant from the GPT-5.1 family that applies chain-of-thought processing to improve accuracy on complex reasoning, mathematics, and coding tasks. It targets analytical workflows where deliberate reasoning over a problem significantly improves output quality.
Launched on the same date

GPT-5.1
OpenAI
2025-11

GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
2025-11
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1 Thinking
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1 Thinking
GPT-5.1
GPT-5.1 Thinking