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GPT-4.1 Nano on MMLU-Pro: score, rank and what it means

GPT-4.1 Nano scores 74.0 on MMLU-Pro, placing it #352 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.

Score
74.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#352
of 600
Percentile
41th
within the index
Benchmark avg
73.5
all models
Leader
91.6
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
17.6
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on MMLU-Pro, with GPT-4.1 Nano highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 91.6
GPT-5.1 Max 91.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 91.2
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 90.7
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 90.1
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 90.0
GPT-5.2 89.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 89.5
GPT-5.2 Vision 89.5
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
7 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
9 GPT-5.2 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $19.03 87.4
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On MMLU-Pro, GPT-4.1 Nano sits at #352 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 91.6, so the gap to the top is 17.6 points. The median model in this index scores 76.1, which puts GPT-4.1 Nano below the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 84.4 on this benchmark. GPT-4.1 Nano is 10.4 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average OpenAI model.

Among mid-range models, the average is 71.5. GPT-4.1 Nano is 2.5 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 74.0 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $7.42 per million input tokens, GPT-4.1 Nano is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MMLU-Pro. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Codestral Base Mistral AI 8192 $3.31 73.1
Mixtral Turbo Chat Together AI 32768 $3.02 71.7
Molmo Chat Allen Institute for AI 32768 $2.40 66.7
Command A Mini Cohere 8192 $8.12 71.0
GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI 32768 $7.42 70.5
Molmo Allen Institute for AI 32768 $2.49 68.5
Phi-4 Base Microsoft 32768 $3.15 71.2

Other benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Nano

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
GPQA Diamond 65.8 345 43th
SWE-bench Verified 59.7 332 45th
HumanEval 72.0 379 37th
MATH-500 75.3 319 47th
AIME 2025 59.5 390 35th
LiveCodeBench 64.3 310 48th
IFEval 80.3 328 45th
TruthfulQA 75.3 325 46th
HellaSwag 82.5 334 44th
MMMU 66.6 363 40th
Arena Elo 1352.6 360 40th

FAQ

What score does GPT-4.1 Nano get on MMLU-Pro?

GPT-4.1 Nano scores 74.0 on MMLU-Pro in this index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the top score is 91.6.

How does GPT-4.1 Nano rank on MMLU-Pro?

It ranks #352 of 600 models, in the 41st percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.

Is GPT-4.1 Nano good at MMLU-Pro?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the MMLU-Pro score calculated?

MMLU-Pro is a knowledge benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does GPT-4.1 Nano cost?

GPT-4.1 Nano costs $7.42 per million input tokens and $32.36 per million output tokens.

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