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GPT-4.1 Mini Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-4-1-mini
Input / 1M tokens
$0.400
Output / 1M tokens
$1.60
Context window
1,047,576 tokens
≈ 1,397 pages of text
Max output
32,768 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0011
1,000 requests / month$1.12/mo10,000 requests / month$11.20/mo100,000 requests / month$112.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-4.1 Mini preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Processes 1M-token contexts at low cost for retrieval, summarization, and high-volume classification tasks.
The business tradeoff
Lower reasoning depth than GPT flagships; output quality can degrade on complex multi-step or novel problems.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.