Model comparison
GPT-4.1 mini vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)
GPT-4.1 mini and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.6 vs 33.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 4 categories and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads 38.8 to 31.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 44.7% for GPT-4.1 mini and 11.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024).
Side by side
| GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.6 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2025-04-14 | 2024-08-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 33K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 47 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 37.6% | 22.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1287 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 23.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.4% | — |
| SciCode | 40.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 46.4% |
| CadEval | 16% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 50.5% | — |
Reasoning Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1349 | 1272 |
| DTBench | 68.8% | 65.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.01 | 130.48 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 48.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 3.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 54.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 54.5% |
| LMCA | 21.1% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 54.3% |
Math GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 44.7% | 11.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1343 | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | 87.3% | 63.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | 0.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 49.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 54.9% |
Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.8% | 53.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | 1254 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 20.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 61.4% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1181 | — |
Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | 1282 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1329 | 1289 |
| LMArena French | 1358 | 1318 |
| LMArena German | 1351 | 1287 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1290 | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1237 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1319 | 1281 |
Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1333 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 69.6% |
| IFEval | 90.4% | — |
Long Context Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1276 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1305 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1300 | 1284 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1354 | 1290 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 63.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1147 | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 45.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?
GPT-4.1 mini and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.6 vs 33.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is GPT-4.1 mini or Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better for coding?
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.