Claude Opus 4.1 vs GPT-4.1 Mini
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against GPT-4.1 Mini by OpenAI, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
GPT-4.1 MiniRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.1 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer.
GPT-4.1 Mini is 47x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
GPT-4.1 Mini
Input
$0.40
38× cheaper
Output
$1.60
47× cheaper
GPT-4.1 Mini is cheaper on both — 38× input, 47× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
53%
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 38.4x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.1
GPT-4.1 Mini
61%Vocabulary59%
87wSentence Length19w
0.54Hedging0.46
5.1Bold4.7
6.7Lists4.9
0.38Emoji0.00
1.68Headings0.76
0.13Transitions0.17
Based on 17 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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