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.
Our Verdict
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
GPT-4.1 Mini
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.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Input
$6.00
Output
$30.00
GPT-4.1 Mini
Input
$0.40
15× cheaper
Output
$1.60
19× cheaper
GPT-4.1 Mini is cheaper on both — 15× input, 19× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
51%
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet uses 2.6x more sentence length
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
GPT-4.1 Mini
61%Vocabulary59%
49wSentence Length19w
0.64Hedging0.46
2.2Bold4.7
4.5Lists4.9
0.00Emoji0.00
1.81Headings0.76
0.21Transitions0.17
Based on 21 + 23 text responses
Research
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