# o4-mini vs Quasar 438B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for o4-mini and Quasar 438B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/o4-mini-vs-quasar-438b
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for o4-mini and Quasar 438B.

## Summary

- o4-mini and Quasar 438B do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | o4-mini | Quasar 438B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Multiverse Computing |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 48.46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 2 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.10 / $4.40 | $0.60 / $1.80 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Quasar 438B public-lane score: 40 (Estimated · #67/128)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Quasar 438B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 69.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Quasar 438B public-lane score: 41.2 (Estimated · #63/150)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Quasar 438B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 97.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 69.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: 67.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Quasar 438B public-lane score: 78.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Quasar 438B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DROP | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: 66.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Quasar 438B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Quasar 438B public-lane score: 46.7 (Estimated · #92/184)

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Quasar 438B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 20.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Quasar 438B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Quasar 438B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 93.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: 83.9 (#53/148)
- Quasar 438B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Quasar 438B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o4-mini | Quasar 438B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 97.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare o4-mini and Quasar 438B on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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- [Quasar 438B vs o4-mini (high)](/compare/o4-mini-high-vs-quasar-438b)
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