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GPT-5 Mini vs o4 Mini vs o4 Mini (batch)

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Winner summary

GPT-5 Mini wins 18 of 33 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · math.

Category leads
reasoning·o4 Miniknowledge·o4 Minigeneral·GPT-5 Minimath·GPT-5 Minilanguage·o4 Minicoding·o4 Mini
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5 Mini
#119 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
o4 Mini
#147 by perf·no signal
QUIET
o4 Mini (batch)
#114 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.2x better value than o4 Mini (batch)
GPT-5 Mini
45.8 pts/$
$1.13/M
o4 Mini
17.7 pts/$
$2.75/M
o4 Mini (batch)
37.9 pts/$
$1.38/M
Vendor risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5 Minio4 Minio4 Mini (batch)
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5 Mini
54.3
o4 Mini
58.7
o4 Mini (batch)
58.7
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.
GPT-5 Mini
4.4
o4 Mini
6.1
o4 Mini (batch)
6.1
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5 Mini leads by +2.1
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-5 Mini
20.0
o4 Mini
17.9
o4 Mini (batch)
17.9
Dtbench
GPT-5 Mini leads by +4.9
GPT-5 Mini
67.5
o4 Mini
62.7
o4 Mini (batch)
62.7
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
GPT-5 Mini
69.4
o4 Mini
77.8
o4 Mini (batch)
77.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5 Mini leads by +7.3
GPT-5 Mini
12.2
o4 Mini
4.9
o4 Mini (batch)
4.9
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5 Mini leads by +11.1
GPT-5 Mini
49.1
o4 Mini
38.0
o4 Mini (batch)
38.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5 Mini
69.4
o4 Mini
75.8
o4 Mini (batch)
75.8
HELM · GPQA
GPT-5 Mini leads by +2.1
GPT-5 Mini
75.6
o4 Mini
73.5
o4 Mini (batch)
73.5
HELM · IFEval
GPT-5 Mini
92.7
o4 Mini
92.9
o4 Mini (batch)
92.9
HELM · MMLU-Pro
GPT-5 Mini leads by +1.5
GPT-5 Mini
83.5
o4 Mini
82.0
o4 Mini (batch)
82.0
HELM · Omni-MATH
GPT-5 Mini leads by +0.2
GPT-5 Mini
72.2
o4 Mini
72.0
o4 Mini (batch)
72.0
HELM · WildBench
GPT-5 Mini leads by +0.1
GPT-5 Mini
85.5
o4 Mini
85.4
o4 Mini (batch)
85.4
Lech Mazur Writing
GPT-5 Mini leads by +8.1
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
GPT-5 Mini
83.1
o4 Mini
75.0
o4 Mini (batch)
75.0
Lmca
GPT-5 Mini leads by +9.1
GPT-5 Mini
40.2
o4 Mini
31.2
o4 Mini (batch)
31.2
MATH level 5
GPT-5 Mini leads by +0.0
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
GPT-5 Mini
97.8
o4 Mini
97.8
o4 Mini (batch)
97.8
Mystery Game Puzzles
GPT-5 Mini leads by +0.9
GPT-5 Mini
0.9
o4 Mini
0.0
o4 Mini (batch)
0.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5 Mini leads by +5.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-5 Mini
86.7
o4 Mini
81.7
o4 Mini (batch)
81.7
SimpleQA Verified
o4 Mini 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 Mini
21.0
o4 Mini
23.9
o4 Mini (batch)
19.6
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
GPT-5 Mini
10.3
o4 Mini
36.3
o4 Mini (batch)
36.3
WeirdML
GPT-5 Mini leads by +0.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5 Mini
52.7
o4 Mini
52.6
o4 Mini (batch)
52.6
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
o4 Mini
72.0
o4 Mini (batch)
72.0
CadEval
CadEval · evaluates the ability to generate and reason about Computer-Aided Design code, testing spatial reasoning and engineering knowledge.
o4 Mini
62.0
o4 Mini (batch)
62.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5 Mini leads by +2.4
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5 Mini
27.2
o4 Mini
24.8
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.
GPT-5 Mini
6.3
o4 Mini
6.3
Gdpval
o4 Mini
25.3
o4 Mini (batch)
25.3
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
o4 Mini
64.0
o4 Mini (batch)
64.0
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.
o4 Mini
3.6
o4 Mini (batch)
3.6
HLE
GPT-5 Mini leads by +1.4
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.
GPT-5 Mini
15.4
o4 Mini
13.9
Metr Time Horizons
o4 Mini
63.9
o4 Mini (batch)
63.9
VISTA
o4 Mini
51.8
o4 Mini (batch)
51.8
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
o4 Mini
26.4
o4 Mini (batch)
26.4
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only)
GPT-5 Mini leads by +14.8
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks.
GPT-5 Mini
59.8
o4 Mini
45.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5 Minio4 Minio4 Mini (batch)
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
54.358.758.7
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.
4.46.16.1
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
20.017.917.9
Dtbench
67.562.762.7
Fiction.LiveBench
Fiction.LiveBench · a continuously updated benchmark using recently published fiction to test reading comprehension and reasoning, preventing data contamination.
69.477.877.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
12.24.94.9
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
49.138.038.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
69.475.875.8
HELM · GPQA
75.673.573.5
HELM · IFEval
92.792.992.9
HELM · MMLU-Pro
83.582.082.0
HELM · Omni-MATH
72.272.072.0
HELM · WildBench
85.585.485.4
Lech Mazur Writing
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
83.175.075.0
Lmca
40.231.231.2
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
97.897.897.8
Mystery Game Puzzles
0.90.00.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
86.781.781.7
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
21.023.919.6
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
10.336.336.3
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
52.752.652.6
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
n/a72.072.0
CadEval
CadEval · evaluates the ability to generate and reason about Computer-Aided Design code, testing spatial reasoning and engineering knowledge.
n/a62.062.0
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.
27.224.8n/a
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.
6.36.3n/a
Gdpval
n/a25.325.3
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
n/a64.064.0
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.
n/a3.63.6
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.
15.413.9n/a
Metr Time Horizons
n/a63.963.9
VISTA
n/a51.851.8
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
n/a26.426.4
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only)
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks.
59.845.0n/a
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Mini$0.25$2.00400K tokens (~200 books)$6.88
OpenAI logoo4 Mini$1.10$4.40200K tokens (~100 books)$19.25
OpenAI logoo4 Mini (batch)$0.55$2.20200K tokens (~100 books)$9.63