openai / text-generation API-only released 2025-04-14

GPT-4.1 Mini

Name: GPT-4.1 Mini
Price: 0.4 USD
Author: openai

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...

Input / 1M

$0.40

Output / 1M

$1.60

Context

1.0M

AA Intelligence

10.2

Closed weights — available only as a hosted API image + text + file → text Knowledge cutoff Jun 2024 View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24

$0.40

input / 1M

$1.60

output / 1M

$0.10

cached input / 1M

$2.00

1M in + 1M out

:batch variant $0.20 in · $0.80 out

Context window: 1,047,576 tokens
Max output: 32,768 tokens
Providers: 2
Cheapest provider: Azure · $0.40 / $1.60
Best throughput: —
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic: 10.2 / 20.2 / —

✓ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✓ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)

Current: $0.40 input · $1.60 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index: 10.2
AA Coding Index: 20.2
AA Agentic Index: —

Design Arena

CategoryEloWin %Rank

3d 837 30.5% #126

codecategories 994 47.5% #126

dataviz 1034 49.2% #111

gamedev 1071 58.5% #108

uicomponent 959 45.4% #120

website 997 47.8% #131

Providers

2 providers · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics

Provider	Quant	Context	Input	Output	Uptime	Tok/s
Azure	unknown	1.0M	$0.40	$1.60	100%	—
OpenAI	unknown	1.0M	$0.40	$1.60	100%	—
Azure	unknown	1.0M	$0.44	$1.76	100%	—

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Specifications

Organisation: openai
Released on OpenRouter: 2025-04-14
Context window: 1,047,576 tokens
Max output: 32,768 tokens
Input: image, text, file
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: June 2024
Tokenizer: GPT
Moderated by provider: Yes
OpenRouter id: openai/gpt-4.1-mini

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