# o4-mini vs Particle-1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for o4-mini and Particle-1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/o4-mini-vs-particle-1
- Last updated: October 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: o4-mini and Particle-1 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Particle-1 has the lower published output-token price.
- Particle-1 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | o4-mini | Particle-1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Particle AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.10 / $4.40 | $0.25 / $1.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 97.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 72.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: 66.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DROP | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: 66.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 90% | 86.1% | o4-mini |
| GPQA | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 20.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 93.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: 83.9 (#56/157)
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Particle-1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Particle-1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 97.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between o4-mini and Particle-1?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

## Related Comparisons

- [o4-mini vs o4-mini (high)](/compare/o4-mini-vs-o4-mini-high)
- [Particle-1 vs o4-mini (high)](/compare/o4-mini-high-vs-particle-1)
- [o4-mini vs Gemini 4 Carbon](/compare/gemini-4-carbon-vs-o4-mini)
- [Particle-1 vs Gemini 4 Carbon](/compare/gemini-4-carbon-vs-particle-1)

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- [o4-mini profile](/models/o4-mini)
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