GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAIReleased Apr 14, 2025Closed weightsgpt-4.1-mini
- Intelligence (Epoch)
- 135 · 91st of 111
- Reasoning
- no
- Knowledge cutoff
- June 2024
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 32k tokens
- Input
- text, image
- API features
- tools, structured outputs, JSON mode, seed
- OpenAI's API
- yes, as gpt-4.1-mini
Read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from OpenAI · cutoff: platform.openai.com
Intelligence for the price
32 models score higher for the same price or less; it ranks 33 of the 50 models at its price or below.
Epoch Capabilities Index against the lowest input + output price per M, log scale · prices Oct 23. Score: Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0, 135 with an interval of 131 to 136.
Against its rivals
The best of its price range and the top score
- GPT-4.1 minithis model$2.00135
- Claude Opus 5.5top score$24.00169
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813same price range$2.50156
- GLM-5.3same price range$2.36156
Same level for 17× less: gpt-oss-20b at AkashML, $0.12 per M input + output · their Epoch intervals overlap (138 against 135).
Bars: Epoch Capabilities Index (Epoch AI, CC BY 4.0), drawn from 100, below the lowest score in the catalogue · price: lowest input + output per M.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache ↑ | tok/s | First token | Uptime 24h | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | 83 | 0.89 s | 100% | Oct 23 |
1 provider · prices per million tokens, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · speed: OpenRouter, median of the last 30 min, read Oct 23, 06:00 UTC · uptime: OpenRouter, last 24 h
| Provider | Weights | Context | Max output | Tools | Structured outputs | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | — | 1.05M | 32K | yes | yes | no |
As served by each host and declared to OpenRouter; not verified by us · weights: the precision the host declares
GPT-4.1 mini spec sheet, field by field, with sources
GPT-4.1 mini spec sheetmaker-declared
What the maker declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.
- Context window
- to verify
- Parameters
- to verify
- Active experts
- to verify
- Weight precision
- not applicable — no weights published
- License
- Proprietary — API onlyScope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
- Knowledge cutoff
- June 2024maker's docs
- Modalities
- to verify
- Max output (official)
- to verify
- Release date
- to verify≈ April 14, 2025 third-party catalogue — not the maker's figure
- Maker lifecycle status
- to verify
openai.com · maker's documentation · 2 of 10 fields published by the maker
| Provider | Chatbot 1,000 in / 500 out | RAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 out | Batch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | $1.20 | $4.00 | $3.20 |
What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job
Your own workload
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