OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini delivers impressive coding and agentic performance at just $0.25/$2 per million tokens, with a 400K context window and vision support. It's an excellent cost-efficient option for development teams and automated pipelines that need strong coding capability without the cost of the full Codex model.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini is a smaller and faster version of GPT-5.1-Codex
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → 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 | $0.25 | $0.000250 |
| Output | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: March 15, 2026 7:52 pm