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Claude 2.1 vs o1-mini: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison

Claude 2.1 vs o1-mini compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.

Verdict

o1-mini has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 2.1 can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.

Author: Mirai Minds Research Team

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Compare
Claude 2.1
to
o1-mini
Overview
Claude 2.1 was released 9 months before o1-mini.
Claude 2.1
o1-mini
Provider
The entity that provides this model.
Anthropic
OpenAI
Input Context Window
The number of tokens supported by the input context window.
200K
tokens
128000
tokens
Maximum Output Tokens
The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.
Not specified.
65536
tokens
Release Date
When the model was first released.
2023-11-23
2024-09-12
Leaderboard
Claude 2.1
o1-mini
Rank
25
5
Arena Elo
1119
1307
95% CI
+4/-3
+3/-4
Votes
39744
35691
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Knowledge Cutoff
Unknown
4/2023
Pricing
Claude 2.1
o1-mini
Input
Cost of input data provided to the model.
$8.00
per million tokens
$1.10
per million tokens
Output
Cost of output tokens generated by the model.
$24.00
per million tokens
$4.40
per million tokens
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 2.1 and o1-mini Instruct.
Claude 2.1
o1-mini
MMLU
Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.
Benchmark not available.
85.2
(5-shot)
Source
MMMU
A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.
HellaSwag
A challenging sentence completion benchmark.
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.

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