gpt-4.1 vs claude-sonnet-4-6
Side-by-side comparison of gpt-4.1 and claude-sonnet-4-6— 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 7 shared benchmarks.
gpt-4.1
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$8.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
openai/gpt-4.1
claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
gpt-4.126.3%
claude-sonnet-4-651.7%
Coding Indexcoding
gpt-4.121.8%
claude-sonnet-4-650.9%
Math Indexmath
gpt-4.134.7%
claude-sonnet-4-6—
GPQA Diamondreasoning
gpt-4.166.6%
claude-sonnet-4-687.5%
AIME 2025math
gpt-4.134.7%
claude-sonnet-4-6—
LiveCodeBenchcoding
gpt-4.145.7%
claude-sonnet-4-6—
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
gpt-4.113.6%
claude-sonnet-4-653.0%
τ²-Benchagentic
gpt-4.147.1%
claude-sonnet-4-675.7%
SciCodecoding
gpt-4.138.1%
claude-sonnet-4-646.8%
MMLU Proknowledge
gpt-4.180.6%
claude-sonnet-4-6—
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
gpt-4.14.6%
claude-sonnet-4-630.0%
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
| gpt-4.1 | claude-sonnet-4-6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $2.00 | $3.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $8.00 | $15.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 33K tokens | 64K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | — | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | — | Yes |
| Provider | OpenAI Inc. | Anthropic PBC |
Questions people ask
Is gpt-4.1 better than claude-sonnet-4-6?
claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms gpt-4.1 on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — gpt-4.1 and claude-sonnet-4-6 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — gpt-4.1 or claude-sonnet-4-6?
gpt-4.1 is cheaper. gpt-4.1 costs $2.00/$8.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while claude-sonnet-4-6 costs $3.00/$15.00.
Can I use gpt-4.1 and claude-sonnet-4-6 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "openai/gpt-4.1" or "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
gpt-4.1 supports up to 1.0M tokens of context. claude-sonnet-4-6 supports up to 1M 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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