Benchmark Almanac

GPT-4.1 mini

GPT-4.1 mini places in the top three on 3 benchmarks.

OpenAI Released April 14th, 2025 Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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In the top three
OpenAI Apr 2025

GPT-4.1 mini

Closed weights

134.2 #144 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 126.5 #305 of 404
  • GPQA Diamond 65.8% #126 /229
  • FrontierMath 4.48% #41 /55
  • ProfBench 42.8% #54 /72

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 2.20% #27 of 148 Official leaderboard
MMLU 87.5% #33 of 131 Lab model card
Phare 70.5% #20 of 62 Official leaderboard
FaithJudge 15.7% #12 of 37 Official leaderboard
MMBench-CN v1.1 78.6% #59 of 178 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,383 #152 of 335 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard v2.0 46.9% #12 of 23 Official leaderboard
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 2489.0 #43 of 77 Official leaderboard
RewardBench 2 65.7% #24 of 42 Official leaderboard
Internal API instruction following (OpenAI) 45.1% #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
Multi-IF 67% #18 of 28 Lab model card
MMMLU 78.5% #46 of 71 Lab model card
IFEval 84.1% #90 of 135 Lab model card
HELM Arabic 76.8 #19 of 28 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,097 #53 of 78 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR 47.2% #7 of 10 Lab model card
SimpleQA 16.8% #12 of 16 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v2.1 57.3 #33 of 42 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 55.5 #95 of 120 Official leaderboard
GraphWalks 61.7% #22 of 27 Lab model card
Fiction.LiveBench 44.4% #47 of 57 Fiction.live leaderboard, via Epoch AI
COLLIE 54.6% #10 of 12 Lab model card
MARS-Bench 31.2% #13 of 15 Official leaderboard
AMemGym 36.7% #10 of 11 Official leaderboard
MultiChallenge 35.8% #39 of 42 Lab model card
SimpleQA Verified 12.7% #88 of 94 Epoch AI run
Seal-0 0% #11 of 11 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MATH Level 5 87.3% #20 of 94 Epoch AI run
GPQA Main 61.4% #23 of 60 Official leaderboard
Misguided Attention 48.7% #20 of 45 Official leaderboard
SciArena 1,015 #16 of 34 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 65.8% #126 of 229 Epoch AI run
PolyMath 28.8% #22 of 38 Official leaderboard
DTBench 68.8% #116 of 180 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 44.7% #138 of 212 Epoch AI run
MATH-500 88% #27 of 38 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 4.48% #41 of 55 Official leaderboard
AIME 2024 49.6% #75 of 88 Lab model card
LiveMathematicianBench 20.4% #16 of 17 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 6.67% #82 of 86 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 0% #95 of 98 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 3.50% #93 of 95 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BigCodeBench-Hard 31.8% #14 of 96 Official leaderboard
StructEval 76.1% #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
BigCodeArena 1,000 #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 37.6% #87 of 112 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,061 #114 of 143 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 23.9% #51 of 60 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 34.7% #26 of 30 Lab model card
DesignArena Website 990 #133 of 151 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 952 #127 of 139 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 984 #132 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 819 #136 of 136 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
TextQuests 11.7 #3 of 28 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 56% #3 of 21 Official leaderboard
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) 65.2% #13 of 67 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard 0.91 #7 of 29 Official leaderboard
BFCL V4 50.5% #21 of 65 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 25 #82 of 188 Official leaderboard
ComplexFuncBench 49.3% #2 of 3 Lab model card
LLM Chess -167 #91 of 123 Official leaderboard
CompileBench 66.7% #15 of 20 Official leaderboard
AppWorld Test-Challenge 37.6% #9 of 12 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 126.3 #110 of 133 Official leaderboard
AppWorld Test-Normal 61.9% #10 of 12 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 7.00% #77 of 84 Epoch AI run
tau-bench 45.9% #22 of 23 Lab model card
MCPMark 3.94% #27 of 28 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 1.00% #92 of 93 Epoch AI run
tau2-bench 53% #10 of 10 Official leaderboard
Cooperate to Compete (C2C) -1.97 #5 of 5 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LEXam 54.6% #9 of 30 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 65.5% #38 of 87 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 71.9% #67 of 129 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 57.9% #81 of 119 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v1 20.8% #32 of 47 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 78% #96 of 138 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 42.8% #54 of 72 Official leaderboard
EnterpriseClawBench 28.6% #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
CadEval 16% #12 of 13 Official leaderboard
PRBench 30.4% #47 of 48 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SEED-Bench-2-Plus 71.9% #4 of 136 Official leaderboard
MMBench 86.9% #10 of 155 Official leaderboard
CharXiv (DQ) 88.4% #5 of 67 Official leaderboard
MM-Vet 74.3% #13 of 164 Official leaderboard
A-Bench 77.4% #14 of 116 Official leaderboard
MMBench-EN v1.1 83.2% #30 of 178 Official leaderboard
VideoEval-Pro 39.9% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
CCBench (MMBench Chinese Culture) 64.3% #31 of 152 Official leaderboard
VHELM 65.6 #11 of 41 Official leaderboard
MMStar 60.9% #55 of 173 Official leaderboard
Math-VR 33.3% #13 of 26 Official leaderboard
MMMU 72.7% #54 of 103 Lab model card
MathVista 73.1% #40 of 70 Lab model card
Vision Arena 1,201 #78 of 136 Official leaderboard
VISTA 41.1% #32 of 54 Official leaderboard
vCX Benchmark 82.9% #29 of 42 Official leaderboard
MADQA 53% #14 of 18 Official leaderboard
MathCanvas-Bench 14.6% #13 of 16 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 56.8% #67 of 75 Lab model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #11 of 75 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Permit 99.8% #13 of 69 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 94.9 #22 of 75 Official leaderboard
Anthropic Red Team 99.3% #27 of 75 Official leaderboard
BaxBench 31.8% #16 of 34 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 60.4% #52 of 82 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 65.0 #121 of 185 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 42.5% #67 of 90 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 39% #71 of 86 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 31.5% #63 of 71 Official leaderboard
World-Class Bio 24.4% #67 of 74 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 59.2% #67 of 73 Official leaderboard
LiveSecBench 23.0 #32 of 34 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Refuse 10.4% #66 of 69 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
OpenVLM Leaderboard 68.9 #40 of 173 Official leaderboard
HELM Capabilities 72.6 #18 of 60 Official leaderboard
LMCA 21.1% #110 of 147 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 31.0 #114 of 151 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 43.6 #125 of 152 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 126.5, 7.7 points below its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 16 capability results OpenAI reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 124.6 to 128.5. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 6 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
IFEval 84.1% IFEval 90.4% Leaderboard, strict, share of instructions followed −6.3 pts
Aider Polyglot 34.7% Aider's polyglot: whole 34.7 (diff 31.6) 32.4% Leaderboard, aider, diff edits +2.3 pts
GPQA Diamond 65% GPQA Diamond (model-extracted answers) 65.8% Epoch AI run −0.8 pts
SWE-bench Verified 23.6% SWE-bench Verified (477 of 500 tasks) 23.9% Leaderboard, mini-SWE-agent −0.3 pts
Internal API instruction following (OpenAI) 45.1% Internal API instruction following (hard) 45.1% Leaderboard Same
CharXiv 56.8% CharXiv-R 56.8 (CharXiv-D 88.4) 56.8% Leaderboard Same

OpenAI's models over time

OpenAI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna GPT-5.4 Mini GPT-5.2 Pro GPT-5 GPT-5 nano GPT-4.1 nano 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.