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GPT 4.1 Mini API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 12, 2026 at 08:06 AM

Overview

GPT 4.1 Mini was released on April 14, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.400 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 1.0M tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window
1.0M
tokens
Pricing
Input$0.400
Output$1.60
Cached$0.100
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output73 tok/s
TTFT0.47s
median latency
Capabilities
VisionToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare GPT 4.1 Mini with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Context
Actions
$0.400
$1.600
1,047,576
Try
$0.350
$0.400
32,768
Try
$0.390
$1.900
262,144
Try
$0.400
$1.200
1,000,000
Try
$0.400
$1.500
202,752
Try
$0.400
$1.750
262,144
Try
$0.400
$2.000
131,072
Try
$0.400
$2.000
131,072
Try
$0.400
$2.200
1,000,000
Try
$0.400
$1.750
163,840
Try
$0.400
$2.000
131,072
Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

GPT 4.1 Mini is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

4
Providers
$0.400
Cheapest Input/M
$1.600
Cheapest Output/M
OpenAI
Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
OpenAI
OpenAI
Best Price
$0.400
$1.600
99.9%
V
Vercel
Best Price
$0.400
$1.600
-
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Best Price
$0.400
$1.600
-
A
Azure
Best Price
$0.400
$1.600
100.0%
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

Cost vs. Quality

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GPT-4.1 Mini
Other models

Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence
22.8 (64th pct)
Coding
18.2 (58th pct)
Math
46.3 (57th pct)
MMLU Pro
78.1 (65th pct)
GPQA
66.4 (66th pct)
LiveCodeBench
48.3 (61th pct)
AIME
43.0 (66th pct)
Aider
32.4 (12th pct)
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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Frequently Asked Questions

GPT 4.1 Mini costs $0.000400 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.001600 per 1,000 output tokens.
GPT 4.1 Mini is available from 4 provider(s). OpenAI offers the best price.
We compare GPT 4.1 Mini with 10 similarly-priced models. See the benchmark scatter plot above to compare quality vs cost.

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