Model comparison

o1-pro vs o4-mini

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

o1-pro OpenAI

31.5

Rank #271 Reported

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-pro scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where o4-mini leads 43.6 to 29.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 23.3% for o1-pro and 58.7% for o4-mini.
  • o4-mini is cheaper at $1.10 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.

Side by side

o1-pro and o4-mini specifications
o1-proo4-mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index31.541.6
Released2025-03-192025-04-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K200K
Max output100K100K
Input $ / M tokens$150$1.10
Output $ / M tokens$600$4.40
Results tracked360

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

o1-pro: —, o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
GSO—3.6%
WeirdML—52.6%
LMArena Coding—1368
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o1-pro: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning o4-mini leads

o1-pro: 20.4 (#239), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
ARC-AGI-123.3%58.7%
EnigmaEval6.1%9.2%
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
SimpleBench—38.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1351
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LMCA—26.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.64
ForecastBench—61.8

Math Not comparable

o1-pro: —, o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Knowledge o4-mini leads

o1-pro: 29.7 (#234), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
Humanity's Last Exam8.1%18.1%
GPQA Diamond—79.6%
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%
LMArena Expert—1343

Multimodal Not comparable

o1-pro: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual Not comparable

o1-pro: —, o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
LMArena Non-English—1337
LMArena Chinese—1354
LMArena French—1364
LMArena German—1336
LMArena Japanese—1308
LMArena Korean—1312
LMArena Russian—1334
LMArena Spanish—1347

Instruction Following Not comparable

o1-pro: —, o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
IFEval—92.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1321

Long Context Not comparable

o1-pro: —, o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1315

Writing & Preference Not comparable

o1-pro: —, o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko1-proo4-mini
LMArena Text—1353
LMArena Creative Writing—1294
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1350

Frequently asked questions

Is o1-pro better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, o1-pro or o4-mini?

o4-mini is cheaper. It lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 200K tokens.

How many benchmarks do o1-pro and o4-mini share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-pro has 3 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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