Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 vs GPT-4.1 Mini
Updated October 21, 2026. 8 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for coding: it scores 83.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 28.5 for GPT-4.1 Mini, though on 1 benchmark against 2.
Pick GPT-4.1 Mini when output tokens cost 6.3x less.
- Shared results
- 8
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 only
- 6
- GPT-4.1 Mini only
- 76
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 scores 83.1 against 28.5.
1 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only GPT-4.1 Mini has a AA Intelligence Index result, 10.2.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-4.1 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 67.9%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-4.1 Mini has a AIME result, 49.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-4.1 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 77.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-4.1 Mini has a Design Arena: websites result, 997.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 takes 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-4.1 Mini
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 $0.0063, GPT-4.1 Mini $0.0012 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-4.1 Mini has the number, $1.818.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 83.1 from 1 benchmark, GPT-4.1 Mini 28.5 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- General, 47.3 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Aider polyglot: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 83.1% against GPT-4.1 Mini 32.4%, 50.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 $10.00 against GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 per million output tokens, 6.3x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 takes 1.05M tokens, GPT-4.1 Mini 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Bars | GPT-4.1 Mini | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 3 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 8 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index30
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 83.1% | 32.4% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 23.9% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 20.2 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 79.2% | 58.2% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 77.8% | 48.3% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 7.6% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| GSO-Bench | 3.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 37.6% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1367 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1360 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 10.2 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 134.9 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 52.9% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| METR time horizons | 55.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 0.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 67.9% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.5% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.6% | 66.4% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.9% | 5.0% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 84.8% | 65.8% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 3.5% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 0.0% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| SimpleBench | 62.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 1.0% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 7.0% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| VPCT | 46.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1349 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1338 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1362 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1182 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1214 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 49.4% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.0% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.8% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 46.3 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 46.3% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 44.7% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 6.7% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 87.3% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1343 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1347 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 77.2% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 78.0% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.9% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.9% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.5% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 84.6% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 85.8% | 78.1% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 12.7% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1328 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1324 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1343 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1322 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 997 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 961 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1071 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1034 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 837 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 994 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | Not measured | 38.3% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 44.0% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 68.8% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 21.1% | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 91.7% | 44.4% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1341 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1333 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1299 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1181 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1356 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1318 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1329 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1350 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1290 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1298 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1358 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1319 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1324 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1326 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1354 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1344 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1319 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1300 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1191 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1186 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1188 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1182 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1174 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1187 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1182 | Only GPT-4.1 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-4.1 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-4.1 Mini costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-4.1 Mini costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-4.1 Mini costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | OpenAI GPT-4.1 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | June 5, 2025 | April 14, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $0.40 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $1.60 |
| Coding index | 83.1 | 28.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $1.818 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 better than GPT-4.1 Mini for coding?
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for coding: it scores 83.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 28.5 for GPT-4.1 Mini, though on 1 benchmark against 2. Pick GPT-4.1 Mini when output tokens cost 6.3x less.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 or GPT-4.1 Mini?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 and $1.60. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 Mini only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 or GPT-4.1 Mini?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 vs GPT-4.1 Mini comparison based on?
8 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and GPT-4.1 Mini's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.