OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini

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...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.4 / $1.6 per 1M

Context

1.05M

Released

Apr 14, 2025

Why use GPT-4.1 Mini

Understands images
Reads PDFs and other files
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs
Very long context: whole books or codebases in one prompt

Pricing

Input	$0.4 / 1M tokens
Output	$1.6 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)	$0.1 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Coding index20.2

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini	$0.0035	$3.52	$3.52

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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