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GPT-4.1 Mini: price, performance and context

Proprietary GPT-4.1 Mini by OpenAI costs $0.40 per 1M input and $1.60 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 1M tokens in one request (≈ 3,100 pages of text) and scores 10.2 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 152 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:49 UTC · openai/gpt-4.1-mini

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$0.40
Output / 1M tokens
$1.60
Context window
1M tokens
Max. output
32.8K tokens
Performance index
10.2 points · rank 152 of 212
Coding index
20.2 points · rank 98 of 119
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.80 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Jun 2024
In the catalog since
Apr 14, 2025
Capabilities
Vision, Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.00111,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00114,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0024,700
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0042,600
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.043230

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