Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-4.1 mini

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

Claude Opus 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 85 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Opus 4.5's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 96.1 against 23.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 99 to 23.1.

GPT-4.1 mini gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude Opus 4.5.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 mini only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window.

Knowledge

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

80.8

GPT-4.1 mini

75.9

99
MMLU
87.5
97
GPQA
64.2
95
SuperGPQA
-
93
OpenBookQA
-
81
MMLU-Pro
-
20
HLE
-

Coding

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

72

GPT-4.1 mini

23.6

91
HumanEval
-
68
SWE-bench Verified
23.6
57
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

96.1

GPT-4.1 mini

23.1

99
AIME 2023
-
99
AIME 2024
23.1
98
AIME 2025
-
95
HMMT Feb 2023
-
97
HMMT Feb 2024
-
96
HMMT Feb 2025
-
96
BRUMO 2025
-
89
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Claude Opus 4.5
95
SimpleQA
-
93
MuSR
-
87
BBH
-

Instruction Following

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

90

GPT-4.1 mini

88.5

90
IFEval
88.5

Multilingual

Claude Opus 4.5
90
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-4.1 mini?

Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall, 85 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 99 and 23.1.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-4.1 mini?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 75.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-4.1 mini?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 23.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-4.1 mini?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 96.1 versus 23.1. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude Opus 4.5 or GPT-4.1 mini?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 90 versus 88.5. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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