Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.
Claude 4 Sonnet is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude 4 Sonnet gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for GPT-4o mini.
Pick Claude 4 Sonnet if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4o mini only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Claude 4 Sonnet
62.2
GPT-4o mini
82
Claude 4 Sonnet
50.7
GPT-4o mini
87.2
Claude 4 Sonnet
84
GPT-4o mini
87
Claude 4 Sonnet is ahead overall, 67 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 65 and 87.2.
GPT-4o mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 62.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-4o mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 87.2 versus 50.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-4o mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 84. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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