Grok 4.1 Fast vs GPT-4o mini

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

Grok 4.1 Fast is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 83 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok 4.1 Fast's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 88 against 87. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 94 to 82. GPT-4o mini does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Grok 4.1 Fast gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for GPT-4o mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4.1 Fast if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4o mini only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Knowledge

GPT-4o mini

Grok 4.1 Fast

77.5

GPT-4o mini

82

94
MMLU
82
92
GPQA
-
90
SuperGPQA
-
88
OpenBookQA
-
81
MMLU-Pro
-
20
HLE
-

Coding

GPT-4o mini

Grok 4.1 Fast

69.3

GPT-4o mini

87.2

86
HumanEval
87.2
68
SWE-bench Verified
-
54
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Grok 4.1 Fast
96
AIME 2023
-
98
AIME 2024
-
97
AIME 2025
-
92
HMMT Feb 2023
-
94
HMMT Feb 2024
-
93
HMMT Feb 2025
-
95
BRUMO 2025
-
89
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Grok 4.1 Fast
90
SimpleQA
-
88
MuSR
-
87
BBH
-

Instruction Following

Grok 4.1 Fast
90
IFEval
-

Multilingual

Grok 4.1 Fast

Grok 4.1 Fast

88

GPT-4o mini

87

88
MGSM
87

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 4.1 Fast or GPT-4o mini?

Grok 4.1 Fast is ahead overall, 83 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 94 and 82.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 4.1 Fast or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 77.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 4.1 Fast or GPT-4o mini?

GPT-4o mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 87.2 versus 69.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Grok 4.1 Fast or GPT-4o mini?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 87. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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