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Claude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4.1 Mini: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison

Claude 4 Sonnet vs GPT-4.1 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

GPT-4.1 Mini has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 4 Sonnet can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.

Author: Mirai Minds Research Team

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Compare
Claude 4 Sonnet
to
GPT-4.1 Mini
Overview
Claude 4 Sonnet was released 2 months after GPT-4.1 Mini.
Claude 4 Sonnet
GPT-4.1 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
1M
tokens
Maximum Output Tokens
The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.
64000
tokens
32K
tokens
Release Date
When the model was first released.
2025-05-22
2025-04-14
Leaderboard
Claude 4 Sonnet
GPT-4.1 Mini
Rank
Unknown
Unknown
Arena Elo
Not specified.
Not specified.
95% CI
Not specified.
Not specified.
Votes
Not specified.
Not specified.
License
Not specified.
Not specified.
Knowledge Cutoff
Unknown
Unknown
Pricing
Claude 4 Sonnet
GPT-4.1 Mini
Input
Cost of input data provided to the model.
$3
per million tokens
$0.40
per million tokens
Output
Cost of output tokens generated by the model.
$15
per million tokens
$1.60
per million tokens
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 4 Sonnet and GPT-4.1 Mini Instruct.
Claude 4 Sonnet
GPT-4.1 Mini
MMLU
Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.
Benchmark not available.
87.5
(5-shot)
Source
MMMU
A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.
74.4
Source
72.7
Source
HellaSwag
A challenging sentence completion benchmark.
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.

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