Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 mini
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-4.1 mini side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, Classification, Open Prompt, Object Detection, and OCR.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 mini Comparison Table
Evals updated August 26, 2026Pricing updated August 27, 2026
| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | Apr 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $0.400 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $1.60 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 mini: Overview
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's mid-tier large language model, released February 17, 2026, designed to balance performance, cost, and versatility for professional and developer use. It supports text and vision-based tasks with advanced reasoning, agentic capabilities, and Adaptive Thinking — a mode where the model dynamically scales its internal reasoning depth. A beta context window of up to 1,000,000 tokens (200K standard) enables processing of entire codebases or document collections in a single request. Parameters are undisclosed.
Optimized for coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, and knowledge work, Sonnet 4.6 delivers a full generational upgrade over Sonnet 4.5 and approaches Opus 4.5-level performance across many benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. It is the default model on Claude.ai, Claude Cowork, and is available via API and major cloud platforms — making it well suited for production workloads requiring strong reasoning without flagship pricing.
GPT-4.1 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a smaller, faster, and cheaper variant of GPT-4.1 designed for high-throughput and cost-sensitive applications. It is multimodal, handling both text and images, and inherits the full model’s strengths in coding, structured outputs, and long-context reasoning. With support for up to 1 million tokens, it enables reliable processing of extended documents, multi-file codebases, and lengthy conversations while keeping latency low.
GPT-4.1 mini offers an efficient alternative to GPT-4.1 and replaced GPT-4o mini as the default ChatGPT model in May 2025. Despite being smaller, it matches or outperforms GPT-4o on several benchmarks, particularly for instruction following and real-world coding tasks. Ideal use cases include large-scale conversational systems, affordable developer tools, document analysis, and interactive assistants where speed and cost are critical.