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Atria Dawn Preview vs GPT-4.1

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 18.0.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · OpenAI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 18.0, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

Choose GPT-4.1

  • you want predictable pricing at $2.00/M input and $8.00/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
GPT-4.1
OpenAI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
18.0
#215
Reasoning
50.5
#12
18.4
#207
Coding
36.2
#22
5.0
#204
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
— / M
$2.00 / M
Output price
— / M
$8.00 / M
Context window
—
1,047,576

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Atria Dawn Preview
GPT-4.1
Tool use
31.1#12
11.5#112
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 29 for GPT-4.1

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and GPT-4.1don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only GPT-4.1 specifies input context (1,047,576 tokens). Only GPT-4.1 specifies output context (32,768 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
OpenAI
GPT-4.1
Input1,047,576 tokens
Output32,768 tokens
Tue Sep 15 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

GPT-4.1 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

GPT-4.1 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

GPT-4.1

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while GPT-4.1 uses a proprietary license.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

GPT-4.1

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while GPT-4.1 was released on 2025-04-14.

Atria Dawn Preview is 17 months newer than GPT-4.1.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

4 days ago

1.4yr newer
GPT-4.1

Apr 14, 2025

1.4 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

GPT-4.1 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-01, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm GPT-4.1's training data extends to 2024-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.

Atria Dawn Preview

—

GPT-4.1

Jun 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and GPT-4.1 side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs GPT-4.1.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or GPT-4.1?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 18.0. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and GPT-4.1 is made by OpenAI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to GPT-4.1 in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. GPT-4.1 scores MMLU: 90.2%, CharXiv-D: 87.9%, IFEval: 87.4%, MMMLU: 87.3%, MMMU: 74.8%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and GPT-4.1?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and GPT-4.1 supports 1.0M tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and GPT-4.1?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 18.0), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs Proprietary). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and GPT-4.1?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and GPT-4.1 is developed by OpenAI.

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