ChatGPT currently recommends I use o3-mini-high ("great at coding and logic") when I start a code conversation with 4o.

I don't understand why the comparison in the announcement talks so much about comparing with 4o's coding abilities to 4.1. Wouldn't the relevant comparison be to o3-mini-high?

4.1 costs a lot more than o3-mini-high, so this seems like a pertinent thing for them to have addressed here. Maybe I am misunderstanding the relationship between the models?

4.1 is a pinned API variant with the improvements from the newer iterations of 4o you're already using in the app, so that's why the comparison focuses between those two.

Pricing wise the per token cost of o3-mini is less than 4.1 but keep in mind o3-mini is a reasoning model and you will pay for those tokens too, not just the final output tokens. Also be aware reasoning models can take a long time to return a response... which isn't great if you're trying to use an API for interactive coding.

> I don't understand why the comparison in the announcement talks so much about comparing with 4o's coding abilities to 4.1. Wouldn't the relevant comparison be to o3-mini-high?

There are tons of comparisons to o3-mini-high in the linked article.