GPT-4.1 vs Horizon Beta
Compare GPT-4.1 by OpenAI against Horizon Beta by OpenRouter, in 3 community votes, horizon beta wins 67% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 256K, tested across 31 shared challenges. Updated March 2026.
Which is better, GPT-4.1 or Horizon Beta?
Horizon Beta is the better choice overall, winning 67% of 3 blind community votes on Rival. GPT-4.1 costs $2/M input tokens vs $0/M for Horizon Beta. Context windows: 1048K vs 256K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between GPT-4.1 and Horizon Beta
GPT-4.1 is made by openai while Horizon Beta is from openrouter. GPT-4.1 has a 1048K token context window compared to Horizon Beta's 256K. On pricing, GPT-4.1 costs $2/M input tokens vs $0/M for Horizon Beta. In community voting, In 3 community votes, Horizon Beta wins 67% of head-to-head duels.
In 3 community votes, Horizon Beta wins 67% of head-to-head duels. Horizon Beta leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 3+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Pick Horizon Beta. In 3 blind votes, Horizon Beta wins 67% of the time. That's not luck.
Horizon Beta particularly excels in Image Generation.
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