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GPT-4.1 mini: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby OpenAIReleased May 14, 2025

GPT-4.1 mini is a text model by OpenAI. 24 providers serve it, from $1.28 to $1.71 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.

Lowest price$1.28/1Mat APIMart
Maker's price$1.60/1M20% more than the lowest
Providers24
Context1.05MMax output 33K

How GPT-4.1 mini compares

Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

  • Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.28 /1M against a median of $1.10; 55% of comparable models cost less.
  • Its 1.05M-token context window is larger than 82% of them (median 262K), about 1570 pages of text.
  • On LMArena's Text board it ranks #66 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
  • 24 providers serve it; 90% of comparable models have fewer.

GPT-4.1 mini prices by provider

Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
APIMart$0.32/1M$1.28/1M——
CometAPI$0.32/1M$1.28/1M$0.08/1M—
Poe$0.364/1M$1.45/1M$0.091/1M1.05M
OpenAIOfficial$0.40/1MFrom$1.60/1M$0.10/1M—
OrcaRouter$0.40/1M$1.60/1M$0.10/1M1.05M
Vercel AI Gateway$0.40/1MFrom$1.60/1M$0.10/1M1.05M
NEAR AI Cloud$0.40/1M$1.60/1M$0.10/1M1M
Helicone$0.40/1MFrom$1.60/1M$0.10/1M—
Prime Inference$0.40/1M$1.60/1M——
AI/ML API$0.40/1M$1.60/1M$0.10/1M—
Impossibl$0.40/1M$1.60/1M$0.10/1M—
OpenRouter$0.40/1MFrom$1.60/1M$0.10/1M1.05M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)$0.40/1MFrom$1.60/1M$0.10/1M—
Replicate$0.40/1M$1.60/1M——
APIYI$0.40/1M$1.60/1M——
LaoZhang API$0.40/1M$1.60/1M——
CrazyRouter$0.40/1M$1.60/1M——
AIHubMix$0.40/1M$1.60/1M$0.10/1M1.05M
ZenMux$0.40/1M$1.60/1M$0.10/1M1.05M
Requesty$0.40/1MFrom$1.60/1M$0.10/1M1.05M
Azure$0.40/1MFrom$1.60/1M$0.10/1M—
FastRouter$0.40/1M$1.60/1M$0.10/1M1.05M
Jiekou.AI$0.40/1M$1.60/1M$0.10/1M—
Cortecs$0.437/1M$1.71/1M$0.134/1M—
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. APIMart$1.28
  2. CometAPI$1.28
  3. Poe$1.45
  4. OrcaRouter$1.60
  5. NEAR AI Cloud$1.60
  6. Prime Inference$1.60
  7. AI/ML API$1.60
  8. Impossibl$1.60
  9. Replicate$1.60
  10. APIYI$1.60
  11. LaoZhang API$1.60
  12. CrazyRouter$1.60
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 26, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Maker
OpenAI
Inputs
Image, Text
Outputs
Text
Context
1.05M≈ 1570 pages of text
Max output
33K
Capabilities
Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling, Vision
Released
May 14, 2025
License
—
Open weights
—
Arena score
1341Text

Alternatives to GPT-4.1 mini

Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.

ModelLowest priceContextArenaProviders
GPT-4.1 minithis model$1.28/1M1.05M134124
GLM-5.3$1.10/1M1.05M162349
Gemini 3 Flash$2.40/1M1.05M14665
Mistral Large 4$2.09/1M1.05M154313
Qwen3.8 27B$0.50/1M262K159133
Sonar$1/1M127K—9
GLM-5.2$1.80/1M1M160444
Grok Build 0.1$1.60/1M256K—18
Gemini 3.8 Flash$3/1M1.05M158530

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