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GPT-5.4 vs GPT-5.1

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Winner summary

GPT-5.4 wins 19 of 22 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · arena.

Category leads
agentic·GPT-5.4reasoning·GPT-5.4arena·GPT-5.4knowledge·GPT-5.4general·GPT-5.4math·GPT-5.4coding·GPT-5.4
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.4
#104 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5.1
#138 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.4x better value than GPT-5.4
GPT-5.4
6.0 pts/$
$8.75/M
GPT-5.1
8.6 pts/$
$5.63/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-5.4GPT-5.1
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.4 leads by +34.9
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
GPT-5.4
52.4
GPT-5.1
17.5
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.4 leads by +20.8
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5.4
93.7
GPT-5.1
72.8
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.4 leads by +56.3
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5.4
74.0
GPT-5.1
17.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
GPT-5.4 leads by +54.0
GPT-5.4
1395.0
GPT-5.1
1341.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GPT-5.4 leads by +26.3
GPT-5.4
1464.8
GPT-5.1
1438.5
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.4 leads by +12.6
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-5.4
41.1
GPT-5.1
28.4
Cl Bench
GPT-5.4 leads by +4.2
GPT-5.4
27.9
GPT-5.1
23.7
Cl Bench Life
GPT-5.4 leads by +4.4
GPT-5.4
21.7
GPT-5.1
17.3
DeepResearch Bench
GPT-5.1 leads by +7.7
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
GPT-5.4
35.1
GPT-5.1
42.8
Dtbench
GPT-5.4 leads by +7.1
GPT-5.4
90.7
GPT-5.1
83.5
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.1 leads by +6.9
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.4
47.6
GPT-5.1
54.5
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.4 leads by +6.3
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.4
27.1
GPT-5.1
20.8
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.4 leads by +7.6
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5.4
91.1
GPT-5.1
83.5
GSO-Bench
GPT-5.4 leads by +17.6
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
GPT-5.4
31.4
GPT-5.1
13.7
HLE
GPT-5.4 leads by +13.2
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
GPT-5.4
33.0
GPT-5.1
19.8
Lmca
GPT-5.4 leads by +9.5
GPT-5.4
61.1
GPT-5.1
51.6
Mystery Game Puzzles
GPT-5.4 leads by +19.8
GPT-5.4
30.6
GPT-5.1
10.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.4 leads by +9.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-5.4
97.8
GPT-5.1
88.6
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5.1 leads by +2.9
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
GPT-5.4
45.1
GPT-5.1
48.0
SWE-Bench verified
GPT-5.4 leads by +8.9
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
GPT-5.4
76.9
GPT-5.1
68.0
Terminal Bench
GPT-5.4 leads by +34.2
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
GPT-5.4
81.8
GPT-5.1
47.6
WeirdML
GPT-5.4 leads by +16.9
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5.4
77.7
GPT-5.1
60.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.4GPT-5.1
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
52.417.5
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
93.772.8
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.
74.017.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1395.01341.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1464.81438.5
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
41.128.4
Cl Bench
27.923.7
Cl Bench Life
21.717.3
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
35.142.8
Dtbench
90.783.5
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
47.654.5
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
27.120.8
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
91.183.5
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
31.413.7
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
33.019.8
Lmca
61.151.6
Mystery Game Puzzles
30.610.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
97.888.6
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
45.148.0
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
76.968.0
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
81.847.6
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
77.760.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4$2.50$15.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$56.25
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38