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Atria Dawn Preview vs GPT-4.1 mini

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 14.0.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · OpenAI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 14.0, 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 mini

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.40/M input and $1.60/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
14.0
#239
Reasoning
50.5
#12
13.9
#232
Coding
36.2
#22
-3.3
#253
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
— / M
$0.40 / M
Output price
— / M
$1.60 / M
Context window
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1,047,576

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Atria Dawn Preview
GPT-4.1 mini
Tool use
31.1#12
2.0#171
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 28 for GPT-4.1 mini

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and GPT-4.1 minidon'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 mini specifies input context (1,047,576 tokens). Only GPT-4.1 mini specifies output context (32,768 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 mini
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 mini supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

GPT-4.1 mini 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 mini

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while GPT-4.1 mini 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 mini

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

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

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

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

4 days ago

1.4yr newer
GPT-4.1 mini

Apr 14, 2025

1.4 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

GPT-4.1 mini has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-05-31, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm GPT-4.1 mini's training data extends to 2024-05-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.

Atria Dawn Preview

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GPT-4.1 mini

May 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

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

Atria Dawn Preview
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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs GPT-4.1 mini.

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

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 14.0. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and GPT-4.1 mini 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 mini 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 mini scores CharXiv-D: 88.4%, MMLU: 87.5%, IFEval: 84.1%, MMMLU: 78.5%, MathVista: 73.1%.

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

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and GPT-4.1 mini 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 mini?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 14.0), 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 mini?

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

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