Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs GPT-4.1 Mini
Compare Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet by Anthropic against GPT-4.1 Mini by OpenAI, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 54 shared challenges. Updated June 2026.
Which is better, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet or GPT-4.1 Mini?
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and GPT-4.1 Mini are both competitive models. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs $6/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for GPT-4.1 Mini. Context windows: 200K vs 1048K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and GPT-4.1 Mini
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is made by anthropic while GPT-4.1 Mini is from openai. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet has a 200K token context window compared to GPT-4.1 Mini's 1048K. On pricing, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs $6/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for GPT-4.1 Mini.
Per 1M tokens
GPT-4.1 Mini is cheaper on both — 15× input, 19× output
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
GPT-4.1 Mini is 19x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet uses 2.6x more sentence length
