Model comparison
GPT-4.1 mini vs GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4.1 mini costs 16× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 10.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 3.5% for GPT-4.1 mini and 95% for GPT-5.5.
- GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
- GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.
Side by side
| GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.6 | 63.4 |
| Released | 2025-04-14 | 2026-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Max output | 33K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | $5 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.60 | $30 |
| Results tracked | 47 | 71 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 40.4% | 56.1% |
| WeirdML | 37.6% | 84.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1494 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 80.6% |
| DeepSWE | — | 67% |
| FrontierCode | — | 43% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 23.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.4% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1513 |
| GSO | — | 40.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| MirrorCode | — | 10% |
| CadEval | 16% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,943 |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 84.7% |
| APEX-Agents | — | 55.1% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 50.5% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 13% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 6.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 44.6% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 54% |
| PostTrainBench | — | 27.2% |
| ExploitBench | — | 47.4% |
| GBAEval | — | 53.2% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 26% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1242 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 7,524 |
Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 85% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 48.6% | 88.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 3.5% | 95% |
| CritPt | 0% | 27.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | 54% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1349 | 1489 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | 56% |
| DTBench | 68.8% | 96% |
| LMCA | 21.1% | 54.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.01 | 159.1 |
| SimpleBench | — | 69% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 96.2% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 34.3% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 88.1% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.6 |
Math GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6.7% | 85.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 44.7% | 100% |
| LMArena Math | 1343 | 1486 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | 51.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 72.5% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 94.3% |
| ProofBench | — | 50% |
| Omni-MATH | 49.1% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 87.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 0% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 35.4% |
Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.8% | 94% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.7% | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | 1508 |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 61.4% | — |
Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1181 | 1297 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 36.2% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 44.2% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1486 |
Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | 1467 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1329 | 1533 |
| LMArena French | 1358 | 1486 |
| LMArena German | 1351 | 1480 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1290 | 1498 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1460 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1473 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1319 | 1468 |
Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1333 | 1479 |
| IFEval | 90.4% | — |
Long Context GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1484 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |
| CL-bench Life | — | 22.2% |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1472 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1300 | 1455 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1147 | 1844 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1354 | 1476 |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1315 |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4.1 mini better than GPT-5.5?
GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4.1 mini costs 16× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or GPT-5.5?
GPT-4.1 mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.
Is GPT-4.1 mini or GPT-5.5 better for coding?
GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-5.5 share?
35 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.