OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini

OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini

openai · Released Apr 14, 2025
Intelligence #124 / 756
48.0 our score
Speed #144 / 330
107.1 tok/s
Input Price #436 / 756
$0.400 per 1M tokens
Output Price #445 / 756
$1.60 per 1M tokens
Context #112 / 756
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

GPT-4.1 Mini is a compact multimodal model designed for high-throughput production use. It provides a 1M token context, image and file handling, tool and function calling, and measured coding and reasoning capability that is useful for routine development and structured automation. Its low pricing improves the economics of sustained API use.

The model is well suited to SEO briefs, content rewriting, classification, customer-support automation, document processing, and coding assistance with clear task boundaries. It can serve as a dependable routing layer, but its lower reasoning depth and modest agentic profile make it a weaker choice for open-ended autonomous agents or high-stakes analysis. Design for Online would consider it for volume client workflows with escalation paths.

Assessed September 7, 2026

Editorial notes

GPT-4.1 Mini offers a 1M token context, vision, file input, tools, and strong value, with useful coding and instruction-following measurements. It is better suited to volume workflows than difficult autonomous engineering.

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DFO Verdict

GPT-4.1 Mini offers a 1M token context, vision, file input, tools, and strong value, with useful coding and instruction-following measurements. It is better suited to volume workflows than difficult autonomous engineering.

#124 of 756 overall Down 9 this week

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond 66.4%
HLE 4.6%
MMLU Pro 78.1%
MATH 500 92.5%
AIME 43%
AIME 2025 46.3%
SciCode 40.4%
LiveCodeBench 48.3%
TerminalBench Hard 7.6%
τ²-Bench 52.9%
IFBench 38.3%
LCR 42.3%

Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

8.8 Intelligence Index·20.2 Coding Index·1.8 Agentic Index·46.3 Math Index

How OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini compares

OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini ranks #244 of 435 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #150 of 208 for coding, #157 of 190 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 85% of the models we list. At $0.40 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 42% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 84% of models #124
Speed: faster than 56% of models #144
Price: cheaper than 42% of models #436
Context: larger than 85% of models #112
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini $0.40 in $1.60 out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence2.4Technical2.1Value7.8Content6.1
Performance profile

Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.40 $0.000400
Output $1.60 $0.001600

What would OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini

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About OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini

GPT-4.1 Mini is a mid-sized model delivering performance competitive with GPT-4o at substantially lower latency and cost. It retains a 1 million token context window and scores 45.1% on hard..

Frequently asked questions about OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini

How much does OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini cost?

OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini?

OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini has a context window of 1,047,576 tokens (1M).

Is OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini ranks #150 of 208 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini do?

OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini?

OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini is developed by OpenAI and was released on April 14, 2025.

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