Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude 4 Sonnet
51
GPT-4.1
58
Pick GPT-4.1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Coding
+18.1 difference
Claude 4 Sonnet
GPT-4.1
$3 / $15
$2 / $8
40 t/s
108 t/s
1.33s
1.02s
200K
1M
Pick GPT-4.1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
GPT-4.1 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 58 to 51. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude 4 Sonnet is also the more expensive model on tokens at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $2.00 input / $8.00 output per 1M tokens for GPT-4.1. GPT-4.1 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude 4 Sonnet.
GPT-4.1 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 58 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 72.7% and 54.6%.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.7 versus 54.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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