o4-mini (high) vs Aion-2.0

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

o4-mini (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 58. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o4-mini (high)'s sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 82.9 against 72.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MATH-500, 84 to 71. Aion-2.0 does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o4-mini (high) gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Aion-2.0.

Quick Verdict

Pick o4-mini (high) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Aion-2.0 only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Agentic

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

58.5

Aion-2.0

51.7

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
48
64
BrowseComp
60
55
OSWorld-Verified
50

Coding

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

38.7

Aion-2.0

33.2

74
HumanEval
66
45
SWE-bench Verified
35
34
LiveCodeBench
29
42
SWE-bench Pro
37

Multimodal & Grounded

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

68.3

Aion-2.0

66

66
MMMU-Pro
61
71
OfficeQA Pro
72

Reasoning

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

77.4

Aion-2.0

70.3

80
SimpleQA
76
78
MuSR
74
83
BBH
76
75
LongBench v2
64
74
MRCRv2
65

Knowledge

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

61.2

Aion-2.0

54

82
MMLU
78
82
GPQA
77
80
SuperGPQA
75
78
OpenBookQA
75
76
MMLU-Pro
67
13
HLE
5
73
FrontierScience
66

Instruction Following

Aion-2.0

o4-mini (high)

83

Aion-2.0

93

83
IFEval
93

Multilingual

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

81.7

Aion-2.0

78.1

83
MGSM
80
81
MMLU-ProX
77

Mathematics

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

82.9

Aion-2.0

72.1

83
AIME 2023
74
85
AIME 2024
76
84
AIME 2025
75
79
HMMT Feb 2023
70
81
HMMT Feb 2024
72
80
HMMT Feb 2025
71
82
BRUMO 2025
73
84
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

o4-mini (high) is ahead overall, 63 to 58. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MATH-500, where the scores are 84 and 71.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.2 versus 54. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 38.7 versus 33.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 72.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 70.3. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 51.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.3 versus 66. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 83. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o4-mini (high) or Aion-2.0?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 versus 78.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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