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MODEL PROOF # GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI · 14 Apr 2025 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.700** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out [GPT-5.6 Luna](/models/openai__gpt-5.6-luna/) · Δ score 90.6 points · 36% lower measured price · $0.450 / 1M tokens [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) is a further stored option with these losses: no file input Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,340.4 ± 4.31 · 38,547 votes Context window 1.05M Maximum output 32.77K Input modalities image, text, file Output modalities text Published input price $0.400 / 1M tokens Published output price $1.60 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from OpenAI: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $0.400 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $1.60 /M | | Cached input | $0.100 /M | | Cache write | Unknown /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | Unknown /M | | Web search | $0.01 /call | ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. 3 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Azure azure Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.100 Context limit 1,047,576 tokens Output limit 942,818 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.80% | Input $0.400 | Output $1.60 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.83% | | Seller OpenAI openai Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.100 Context limit 1,047,576 tokens Output limit 32,768 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.98% | Input $0.400 | Output $1.60 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.91% | | Seller Azure azure/swedencentral Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.110 Context limit 1,047,576 tokens Output limit 942,818 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.440 | Output $1.76 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.97% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1340.4 default | | --- | --- | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. #### Best rankings by task - Game development #95 1083 - Data visualisation #104 1041 - UI components #111 968 - Code categories #115 999 - 3D #117 844 - Websites #118 1004 Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list. ### Capability | Context window | 1M | | --- | --- | | Max output | 32K | | Input modes | image, text, file | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | no | | Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06-30 | | Open weights | no | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | 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... ## Questions this page answers What does GPT-4.1 Mini cost? $0.400/M in, $1.60/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does GPT-4.1 Mini have an independent quality score? GPT-4.1 Mini has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats GPT-4.1 Mini? GPT-5.6 Luna has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for GPT-4.1 Mini? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [GPT-5.6 Luna](/models/openai__gpt-5.6-luna/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - Nearby on the capability axis [MiniMax M1](/models/minimax__minimax-m1/) - Same vendor [o3 Mini High](/models/openai__o3-mini-high/) - OpenAI models [OpenAI](/providers/openai/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3 32B](/models/qwen__qwen3-32b/) - Same vendor [o4 Mini](/models/openai__o4-mini/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Trinity Large Thinking](/models/arcee-ai__trinity-large-thinking/) - Same vendor [GPT-5 Nano](/models/openai__gpt-5-nano/) - Where this model appears [subscription vs API](/plans/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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