Model comparison

GPT-6 Astra vs o1-mini

GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.3 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6 Astra OpenAI

70.3

Rank #1 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

33.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-6 Astra scores higher in 9 categories and o1-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Astra leads 85.1 to 8.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 95% for GPT-6 Astra and 0.8% for o1-mini.

Side by side

GPT-6 Astra and o1-mini specifications
GPT-6 Astrao1-mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index70.333.7
Released2026-09-032024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$50—
Results tracked5139

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 70.5 (#3), o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
WeirdML93.6%36.3%
LMArena Coding14881362
DeepSWE74.1%—
FrontierCode53.3%—
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
LMArena WebDev1792—
FrontierSWE65.5%—
SciCode56.5%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
MirrorCode46.7%—
ALE-Bench2,951—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 52.3 (#3), o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
APEX-Agents64.7%—
Remote Labor Index20.8%—
Cybench—10%
BALROG68.3%—
Vending-Bench 215,515—

Reasoning GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1), o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
ARC-AGI-295%0.8%
ARC-AGI-198.5%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14641333
Epoch Capabilities Index166.6135.82
SimpleBench—18.1%
NYT Connections (extended)98.1%—
CritPt31.7%—
Chess Puzzles72%—
EBR-Bench76.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles84%—
DTBench97.3%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA64.4%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 93.4 (#1), o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%46.9%
LMArena Math14631358
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)93.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 497.6%—
ProofBench99%—
LiveBench Math—62%
MATH Level 5—89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—

Knowledge GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1), o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
GPQA Diamond95.8%62.4%
LMArena Expert14861316
Humanity's Last Exam54.8%—
SimpleQA Verified75.6%—
Confabulations—18.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6 Astra: 55.1 (#3), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
LMArena Vision1280—
Blueprint-Bench 249.7%—
Furniture Assembly80%—
LMArena Document1468—

Multilingual GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 54.0 (#53), o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
LMArena Non-English14311289
LMArena Chinese14951314
LMArena French14671292
LMArena Russian14341283
LMArena Spanish14121302
LMArena German—1278
LMArena Japanese—1245
LMArena Korean—1223

Instruction Following GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 76.6 (#37), o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14541304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 44.7 (#57), o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
LMArena Longer Query14601321

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Astra leads

GPT-6 Astra: 75.7 (#7), o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 Astrao1-mini
LMArena Text14431317
LMArena Creative Writing14231244
LMArena Multi-Turn14571314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2173—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6 Astra better than o1-mini?

GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.3 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-6 Astra or o1-mini better for coding?

GPT-6 Astra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 70.5 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Astra and o1-mini share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6 Astra has 51 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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