Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.
o4-mini (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
o4-mini (high) gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for GPT-4o mini.
Pick o4-mini (high) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4o mini only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
o4-mini (high)
68.5
GPT-4o mini
82
o4-mini (high)
51
GPT-4o mini
87.2
o4-mini (high)
83
GPT-4o mini
87
o4-mini (high) is ahead overall, 71 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 74 and 87.2.
GPT-4o mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 68.5. o4-mini (high) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
GPT-4o mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 87.2 versus 51. 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 83. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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