OpenAI

GPT-4.1 mini

Public pricingHuge memoryVisionTool use

GPT-4.1 mini is OpenAI's huge-memory model with vision, tool use. This page shows current pricing, an interactive cost calculator, and a side-by-side with similar models.

Input

$0.40/1M tokens

Output

$1.60/1M tokens

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Interactive

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Technical specifications

GPT-4.1 mini at a glance.

Memory

1,000,000

tokens

Max reply

32,768

tokens

Memory tier

Huge

multiple books or whole repositories

Tokenizer

tiktoken-o200k

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Training cutoff

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Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick GPT-4.1 mini

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

Alternatives

Similar models to compare.

FAQ

GPT-4.1 mini — the questions we see most.

Pricing, capabilities, alternatives — generated from the same data that powers the calculator above.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, GPT-4.1 mini costs roughly $94 per month. Input is $0.40 /1M tokens and output is $1.60 /1M tokens.
GPT-4.1 mini has a 1,000,000-token context window (huge memory — multiple books or whole repositories). That means you can fit about 187,500 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, GPT-4.1 mini supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Models in a similar class include GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-5 nano. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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