GPT-4.1 Mini: pricing, context window and benchmarks
GPT-4.1 Mini is a multimodal model from OpenAI. It offers a 128,000-token context window, costs $10.43 per million input tokens and $49.01 per million output tokens, and averages 74.3 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
GPT-4.1 Mini costs $10.43 per million input tokens and $49.01 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $20.07 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $1.50 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $10.43 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $49.01 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $1.50 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $20.07 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $59.44 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 76.7 | 285 | 53th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 69.3 | 285 | 53th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 60.9 | 304 | 49th | |
| HumanEval | 78.9 | 267 | 56th | |
| MATH-500 | 77.9 | 259 | 57th | |
| AIME 2025 | 66.9 | 314 | 48th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 67.0 | 249 | 59th | |
| IFEval | 81.4 | 289 | 52th | |
| TruthfulQA | 79.8 | 185 | 69th | |
| HellaSwag | 84.9 | 250 | 58th | |
| MMMU | 73.9 | 195 | 68th | |
| Arena Elo | 1379.7 | 274 | 54th |
What GPT-4.1 Mini is good for
GPT-4.1 Mini is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $10.43 per million input tokens with a 128,000-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.
Strengths
- Large 128,000-token context window for long documents and agent traces.
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
Trade-offs
- Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
- Premium input pricing at $10.43 per million tokens.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3 Novita | Novita AI | 128000 | $3.70 | 74.4 |
| Seed-OSS Chat | ByteDance | 65536 | $3.49 | 74.4 |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | OpenAI | 128000 | $10.43 | 74.3 |
| Nova Lite Reasoning | Amazon | 32768 | $9.92 | 74.3 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Mini | Google DeepMind | 128000 | $10.07 | 74.2 |
| Llama 3 Novita Chat | Novita AI | 65536 | $3.50 | 74.2 |
FAQ
How much does GPT-4.1 Mini cost?
GPT-4.1 Mini is listed at $10.43 per million input tokens and $49.01 per million output tokens. Cached input is $1.50 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $20.07 per million tokens.
What is the context window of GPT-4.1 Mini?
GPT-4.1 Mini has a context window of 128,000 tokens and can emit up to 4,096 output tokens per request in this index.
Is GPT-4.1 Mini open weights?
No. GPT-4.1 Mini is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does GPT-4.1 Mini score on benchmarks?
GPT-4.1 Mini averages 74.3 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #268 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1379.7.
What is GPT-4.1 Mini best for?
GPT-4.1 Mini is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $10.43 per million input tokens with a 128,000-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.