Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.2 to 35.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.7

Rank #215 Confirmed

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

49.2

Rank #46 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 1 category and GPT-6 Sol in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Sol leads 49.3 to 11.7.
  • GPT-4.1 is cheaper at $2 / $8 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6 Sol.
  • GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and GPT-6 Sol specifications
GPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index35.749.2
Released2025-04-142026-09-22
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2
Output $ / M tokens$8$10
Results tracked5222

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 34.2 (#228), GPT-6 Sol: 59.6 (#11)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Coding13911453
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
DeepSWE—68.8%
FrontierCode—49.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%—
Aider Polyglot52.4%—
LMArena WebDev—1692
WeirdML39%—
CadEval42%—
ALE-Bench558.1—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#40), GPT-6 Sol: 33.5 (#49)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%—
GDP.pdf—28%

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#334), GPT-6 Sol: 49.3 (#34)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Hard Prompts13841420
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
SimpleBench27%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—90.1%
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
EBR-Bench—53.3%
DTBench68.3%—
LMCA25.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index136.79—
ForecastBench61.5—

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 21.4 (#269), GPT-6 Sol: 35.8 (#135)

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 37.0 (#152), GPT-6 Sol: 43.0 (#87)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%6.5%
LMArena Expert13641449
GPQA Diamond66.9%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—

Multimodal GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 37.5 (#66), GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#9)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench72%—
Furniture Assembly—58.3%

Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 49.6 (#128), GPT-6 Sol: 51.0 (#113)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Non-English13701389
LMArena Chinese13821416
LMArena Russian13771407
LMArena Spanish13751377
LMArena French1383—
LMArena German1380—
LMArena Japanese1320—
LMArena Korean1339—

Instruction Following GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 71.5 (#148), GPT-6 Sol: 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following13671406
IFEval83.8%—

Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#158), GPT-6 Sol: 43.2 (#100)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query13851415
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-4.1: 57.8 (#120), GPT-6 Sol: 72.3 (#15)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1GPT-6 Sol
LMArena Text13831396
LMArena Creative Writing13631392
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14202125
LMArena Multi-Turn13981405
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than GPT-6 Sol?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.2 to 35.7 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or GPT-6 Sol?

GPT-4.1 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Is GPT-4.1 or GPT-6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and GPT-6 Sol share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Sol has 22.

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