o4-mini (2025-04-16)
OpenAIProprietary
o4-mini (2025-04-16) is a vision-language model from OpenAI. It ranks 98 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1194±7 from 41,316 votes. Its best category is Captioning (#22 of 34). License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- OpenAI
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
Who it suits
- Overall #98 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Strongest category: Captioning (#22 of 34).
- Proprietary; used through OpenAI’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95 |  Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Non-Thinking, 09-2025) Google | 1198 | 4,862 | Proprietary | +4 |
| 96 | GPT-5.4 nano (High) OpenAI | 1196 | 25,624 | Proprietary | +2 |
| 97 | GPT-4.5 Preview (2025-02-27) OpenAI | 1195 | 2,925 | Proprietary | +1 |
| 98 | o4-mini (2025-04-16) OpenAI | 1194 | 41,316 | Proprietary | |
| 99 |  Claude Opus 4 (Thinking 16K, 20250514) Anthropic | 1192 | 1,290 | Proprietary | -2 |
| 100 | Claude Sonnet 4 (Thinking 32K, 20250514) Anthropic | 1191 | 1,144 | Proprietary | -3 |
| 101 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview (Thinking, 06-17) Google | 1187 | 35,914 | Proprietary | -7 |
Alternatives · More from OpenAI
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | GPT-5.4 (High) OpenAI | 1303 | 30,747 | Proprietary |
| 21 | GPT-5.5 OpenAI | 1297 | 28,781 | Proprietary |
| 25 | GPT-5.5 (High) OpenAI | 1293 | 27,067 | Proprietary |
| 27 | GPT-5.4 OpenAI | 1292 | 22,804 | Proprietary |
| 29 | GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) OpenAI | 1288 | 2,330 | Proprietary |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 | Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 |  Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does o4-mini (2025-04-16) rank among vision models?
Overall rank 98 (1194); OCR rank 95 (1197); Diagrams rank 97 (1197); Homework rank 85 (1234); Captioning rank 22 (1204); Entity recognition rank 34 (1218); Creative writing rank 97 (1166); Humor rank 75 (1199); English rank 98 (1200); Chinese rank 86 (1218) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is o4-mini (2025-04-16) at OCR?
o4-mini (2025-04-16) ranks 95 of 123 on LMArena’s OCR board with 1197 (11,774 votes).
Is o4-mini (2025-04-16) better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #86 of 128 (1218); English board: #98 of 167 (1200). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is o4-mini (2025-04-16) open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through OpenAI’s apps or API.
How far is o4-mini (2025-04-16) from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); o4-mini (2025-04-16) has 1194, 131 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.