Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-4.1 mini

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 24.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 27.1% for Gemini 4 Argon and 0% for GPT-4.1 mini.

Side by side

Gemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index56.533.6
Released2026-09-302025-04-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked2147

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
SciCode61.8%40.4%
LMArena Coding15501367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
WeirdML—37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
CritPt27.1%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15481349
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
Chess Puzzles—7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.01

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Math15361343
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
ProofBench99%—
Omni-MATH—49.1%
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Expert15531338
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%

Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision—1181
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English15231318
LMArena Chinese16101329
LMArena Russian15371324
LMArena Spanish14971319
LMArena French—1358
LMArena German—1351
LMArena Japanese—1290
LMArena Korean—1298

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following15381333
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query15491344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text15341340
LMArena Creative Writing15311300
LMArena Multi-Turn15571354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than GPT-4.1 mini?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-4.1 mini share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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