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title: "OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: $0.400/M in, $1.60/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: $0.400/M in, $1.60/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# GPT-4.1 Mini

OpenAI · released 2025-04-14

 $0.700 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## GPT-5.6 Luna is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+37.5** higher and costs **36% less** ($0.450/M against $0.700/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash-0731) is cheaper still (85% less) but drops no image, file input.

The same model via **batch** is 50% cheaper ($0.350/M) — same weights, different latency.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.400 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.60 /M |
| Cached input | $0.100 /M |
| Web search | $0.01 /call |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 14.8 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 20.2 |
| Agentic | 1.8 |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 1.0M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 33K |
| Input modes | image, text, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06-30 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

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...