o4-mini (high) vs. GPT-4.1
Comparison between o4-mini (high) and GPT-4.1 across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.
For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.
| Intelligence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 17* | 13* | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 17% | 4% | |
| CritPt | 1% | 0% | |
| AA-Omniscience | −36 | −40 | |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 61% | 68% | |
| Cost | |||
| Price per 1M Tokens | $0.8525 | $1.55 | |
| Input Price per 1M Tokens | $1.10 | $2.00 | |
| Output Price per 1M Tokens | $4.40 | $8.00 | |
| Cache Hit Price per 1M Tokens | $0.275 | $0.50 | |
| Token Use | |||
| Performance | |||
| Output Speed | 136 tokens/s | 163 tokens/s | |
| Time to First Token | 21.70s | 1.03s | |
| Time to First Answer Token | 21.70s | 1.03s | |
| End-to-End Response Time | 25.39s | 4.10s | |
| Technical specifications | |||
| Context Window | 200k tokens~300 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | 1000k tokens~1,500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | |
| Release Date | April 2025 | April 2025 | |
| Knowledge Cutoff | May 2024 | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | No | |
| Input modality | Supports: text and image | Supports: text and image | |
| Output modality | Supports: text | Supports: text | |
| Open Source (Weights) | No | No | |
* Estimated
Highlights
IntelligenceUpdated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic coding & terminal use
Coding
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Physics reasoning
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Long context reasoning
Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate
Agentic business operations
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Instruction following
Agentic tool use
Long-horizon agentic tasks
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Visual reasoning
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed
Time per Intelligence Index Task
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Latency: Time To First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Frequently Asked Questions
o4-mini (high) is more intelligent. o4-mini (high) scores 17 (estimated), compared with GPT-4.1 at 13 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
GPT-4.1 is faster. GPT-4.1 generates 162.6 tokens per second, compared with o4-mini (high) at 135.6 tokens per second.
o4-mini (high) is cheaper. o4-mini (high) costs $0.85 per 1M tokens, compared with GPT-4.1 at $1.55 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
GPT-4.1 has lower latency. GPT-4.1 has a time to first token of 1.03s, compared with o4-mini (high) at 21.70s.
GPT-4.1 has a larger context window. GPT-4.1 supports 1.0M tokens, compared with o4-mini (high) at 200k tokens.