Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs o1

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 9 categories and o1 in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 36.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 78.6% for GPT-5.4 and 14.7% for o1.
  • GPT-5.4 is cheaper at $2.50 / $15 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and o1 specifications
GPT-5.4o1
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index59.440.9
Released2026-03-052024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$15
Output $ / M tokens$15$60
Results tracked6852

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
WeirdML77.7%47.6%
LMArena Coding14971367
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
MirrorCode15.6%—
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
METR Time Horizons74.3%51.1%
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
Cybench—10%
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
GBAEval45.1%—
LMArena Search1197—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
ARC-AGI-193.7%30.7%
Chess Puzzles44%15%
EnigmaEval16%5.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851371
DTBench94.4%74.7%
LMCA52%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81141.91
ARC-AGI-274%—
SimpleBench—41.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
CritPt23.4%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
ForecastBench59.5—
LiveBench—75.7%

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
GPQA Diamond93.3%76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%8%
SimpleQA Verified45.1%41.1%
LMArena Expert15071361
Confabulations—11.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—

Multimodal GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
LMArena Vision13031168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
LMArena Non-English14651358
LMArena Chinese15191394
LMArena French14931344
LMArena German14721337
LMArena Japanese14851346
LMArena Korean14481396
LMArena Russian14801356
LMArena Spanish14541345

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
LMArena Instruction Following14691367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context Too close to call

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
LMArena Longer Query14731378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4o1
LMArena Text14691366
LMArena Creative Writing14391348
LMArena Multi-Turn14821369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41272—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than o1?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 or o1?

GPT-5.4 is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is GPT-5.4 or o1 better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 46.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and o1 share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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