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GPT-4o-mini vs GPT-5.4 Mini

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Winner summary

GPT-5.4 Mini wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · knowledge · math.

Category leads
reasoning·GPT-5.4 Miniknowledge·GPT-5.4 Minimath·GPT-5.4 Minicoding·GPT-5.4 Mini
Hype vs Reality
GPT-4o-mini
#175 by perf·no signal
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GPT-5.4 Mini
#182 by perf·no signal
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Best value
7.2x better value than GPT-5.4 Mini
GPT-4o-mini
105.6 pts/$
$0.38/M
GPT-5.4 Mini
14.6 pts/$
$2.63/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-4o-miniGPT-5.4 Mini
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.4 Mini leads by +18.9
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-4o-mini
0.0
GPT-5.4 Mini
18.9
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.4 Mini leads by +61.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-4o-mini
17.0
GPT-5.4 Mini
78.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.4 Mini leads by +80.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-4o-mini
6.8
GPT-5.4 Mini
87.2
WeirdML
GPT-5.4 Mini leads by +48.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-4o-mini
11.8
GPT-5.4 Mini
60.3
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-4o-miniGPT-5.4 Mini
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
0.018.9
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
17.078.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
6.887.2
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
11.860.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-4o-mini$0.15$0.60128K tokens (~64 books)$2.62
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4 Mini$0.75$4.50400K tokens (~200 books)$16.88