Claude Instant 1.2vsGPT-4o mini
Claude Instant 1.2 | GPT-4o mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | 100k | 128k |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $0.15 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $0.60 |
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again. | — | $0.075 |
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page. | — | $0.15Azure |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | — | $0.60Azure |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
BullshitBench v2Nonsense detection — Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 2% |
HumanEvalFunction synthesis — 164 small Python problems: the AI is given a function's description and has to write the working function. This was the coding benchmark of the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 era, before the field moved to fixing real bugs in real repositories. Higher is better. | 58.7% | — |
GPQA DiamondScience — Graduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 40.2% |
GSM8KGrade-school math — Grade-school maths word problems that take a few steps of arithmetic to work through. It separated the models of 2022 and 2023 sharply, then saturated. One caveat on the historical numbers: OpenAI included part of the GSM8K training set in GPT-4's pre-training mix, so GPT-4's score is not a clean few-shot result. Higher is better. | 86.7% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release date | Aug 9 2023 | Jul 18 2024 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
Claude Instant 1.2 and GPT-4o mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only GPT-4o mini has a verified first-party API price: $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude Instant 1.2. Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 344 days before GPT-4o mini, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 100k (Claude Instant 1.2) vs 128k (GPT-4o mini).
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Instant 1.2 and GPT-4o mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Claude Instant 1.2 was released by Anthropic on Aug 9 2023.
GPT-4o mini was released by OpenAI on Jul 18 2024.
Only GPT-4o mini has a verified first-party API price: $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude Instant 1.2. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.
Claude Instant 1.2 has a 100k context window; GPT-4o mini has 128k.