OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini
GPT-4.1 Mini offers a strong balance of capability and cost at a very competitive price point, with vision support and a 1M token context window that suits high-volume content and tool-use workflows. Its reasoning performance is modest compared to current top-tier models, making it best suited for lighter business tasks where cost efficiency matters.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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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 instruction evals, 35.8% on MultiChallenge, and 84.1% on IFEval. Mini also shows strong coding ability (e.g., 31.6% on Aider’s polyglot diff benchmark) and vision understanding, making it suitable for interactive applications with tight performance constraints.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + File → Text |
| Tokenizer | GPT |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.40 | $0.000400 |
| Output | $1.60 | $0.001600 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
