# Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 Mini

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads GPT-4.1 Mini in 4 of 4 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Science, and Long context.

Claude Opus 4.6: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

GPT-4.1 Mini: $0.7 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.6: closed weights.

GPT-4.1 Mini: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads GPT-4.1 Mini in General LLM at #4 against #174.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads GPT-4.1 Mini in Reasoning at #2 against #171.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads GPT-4.1 Mini in Science at #32 against #99.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads GPT-4.1 Mini in Long context at #2 against #168.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 is near state of the art, rank #2 in Reasoning (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-4.1 Mini is ranked #89 in Abstraction (ARC) (since Oct 15, 2026; sources ARC-AGI; methodology v1.0).