claude-sonnet-4-6 vs gpt-4.1
Side-by-side comparison of claude-sonnet-4-6 and gpt-4.1 — benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 7 of 9 shared benchmarks.
claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
gpt-4.1
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$8.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
openai/gpt-4.1
Benchmark comparison
MMLU Proknowledge
claude-sonnet-4-685.2%
gpt-4.185.3%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-676.8%
gpt-4.174.1%
HumanEvalcoding
claude-sonnet-4-693.5%
gpt-4.191.8%
SWE-Bench Verifiedcoding
claude-sonnet-4-677.2%
gpt-4.168.1%
MATHmath
claude-sonnet-4-689.4%
gpt-4.189.2%
AIME 2024math
claude-sonnet-4-680.4%
gpt-4.172.4%
MMMUmultimodal
claude-sonnet-4-674.3%
gpt-4.174.8%
LiveBenchreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-671.8%
gpt-4.166.7%
τ-bench Retailagentic
claude-sonnet-4-670.1%
gpt-4.165.1%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| claude-sonnet-4-6 | gpt-4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $2.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $15.00 | $8.00 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 33K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | — |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | Yes | — |
| Provider | Anthropic PBC | OpenAI Inc. |
Questions people ask
Is claude-sonnet-4-6 better than gpt-4.1?
claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 7 of 9 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — claude-sonnet-4-6 and gpt-4.1 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — claude-sonnet-4-6 or gpt-4.1?
gpt-4.1 is cheaper. claude-sonnet-4-6 costs $3.00/$15.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while gpt-4.1 costs $2.00/$8.00.
Can I use claude-sonnet-4-6 and gpt-4.1 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6" or "openai/gpt-4.1" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
claude-sonnet-4-6 supports up to 1M tokens of context. gpt-4.1 supports up to 1.0M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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