OpenAI model product
GPT-4.1 mini provides a balance between intelligence, speed, and cost. It's a significant leap in small model performance, even beating GPT-4o in many benchmarks while reducing latency and cost.
Updated Aug 10, 2026. Default version: GPT-4.1 mini
Structured fields from the published default version.
This profile uses the latest version under this unique model that has a calculated LLMBoard score. Arena and price are excluded.
Published benchmark records for the scored version GPT-4.1 mini.
| OpenAI-MRCR: 2 needle 1M | 0.3 | 4 | 5 | 25.0% | C | |
| ComplexFuncBench | 0.5 | 5 | 7 | 33.3% | C | |
| Internal API instruction following (hard) | 0.5 | 5 | 7 | 33.3% | C | |
| OpenAI-MRCR: 2 needle 128k | 0.5 | 5 | 9 | 50.0% | C | |
| CharXiv-D | 0.9 | 6 | 16 | 66.7% | C | |
| Aider-Polyglot Edit | 0.3 | 8 | 10 | 22.2% | C | |
| Graphwalks parents <128k | 0.6 | 8 | 18 | 58.8% | C | |
| COLLIE | 0.5 | 9 | 10 | 11.1% | C | |
| MathVista | 0.7 | 9 | 39 | 79.0% | C | |
| Graphwalks BFS <128k | 0.6 | 13 | 22 | 42.9% | C | |
| Graphwalks parents >128k | 0.1 | 16 | 18 | 11.8% | C | |
| Multi-IF | 0.7 | 17 | 20 | 15.8% | C | |
| Aider-Polyglot | 0.3 | 19 | 22 | 14.3% | C | |
| TAU-bench Airline | 0.4 | 20 | 23 | 13.6% | C | |
| Graphwalks BFS >128k | 0.1 | 21 | 22 | 4.8% | C | |
| TAU-bench Retail | 0.6 | 22 | 25 | 12.5% | C | |
| MMLU | 0.9 | 23 | 100 | 77.8% | C | |
| Multi-Challenge | 0.4 | 26 | 29 | 10.7% | C | |
| MMMU | 0.7 | 27 | 63 | 58.1% | C | |
| HMMT 2025 | 0.3 | 31 | 33 | 6.3% | C | |
| CharXiv-R | 0.6 | 37 | 47 | 21.7% | C | |
| MMMLU | 0.8 | 40 | 49 | 18.8% | C | |
| IFEval | 0.8 | 41 | 65 | 37.5% | C | |
| AIME 2024 | 0.5 | 47 | 53 | 11.5% | C | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 0.0 | 92 | 92 | 0.0% | C | |
| SWE-Bench Verified | 0.2 | 101 | 104 | 2.9% | C | |
| AIME 2025 | 0.4 | 109 | 114 | 4.4% | C | |
| GPQA | 0.7 | 150 | 233 | 35.8% | C |
Preference and agent-evaluation signals from published Arena datasets.
| vision style control | captioning | 16 | 1195.2 | 397 | N/A | |
| vision style control | creative writing | 22 | 1187.3 | 1,276 | N/A | |
| vision | captioning | 24 | 1176.3 | 397 | N/A | |
| vision style control | entity recognition | 25 | 1198.3 | 360 | N/A | |
| vision | creative writing | 29 | 1164.9 | 1,276 | N/A | |
| vision | entity recognition | 37 | 1188.2 | 360 | N/A | |
| vision style control | creative writing vision | 52 | 1217.6 | 1,172 | N/A | |
| vision style control | humor | 53 | 1196.5 | 1,426 | N/A | |
| vision style control | chinese | 62 | 1226.4 | 1,139 | N/A | |
| vision | humor | 63 | 1181.3 | 1,426 | N/A | |
| vision | creative writing vision | 67 | 1194.0 | 1,172 | N/A | |
| vision | chinese | 68 | 1189.4 | 1,139 | N/A | |
| vision style control | english | 68 | 1208.6 | 19,809 | N/A | |
| vision style control | overall | 69 | 1202.6 | 40,833 | N/A | |
| vision | homework | 70 | 1215.3 | 1,333 | N/A | |
| vision style control | homework | 71 | 1222.2 | 1,333 | N/A | |
| vision style control | ocr | 74 | 1206.5 | 10,604 | N/A | |
| vision style control | diagram | 76 | 1208.7 | 2,400 | N/A | |
| vision | ocr | 78 | 1188.1 | 10,604 | N/A | |
| vision | diagram | 80 | 1182.1 | 2,400 | N/A | |
| vision | english | 82 | 1191.2 | 19,809 | N/A | |
| vision | overall | 83 | 1182.5 | 40,833 | N/A | |
| text style control | german | 118 | 1391.2 | 1,017 | N/A | |
| text style control | korean | 120 | 1347.2 | 781 | N/A | |
| text style control | japanese | 127 | 1324.1 | 909 | N/A | |
| text style control | polish | 128 | 1382.1 | 2,616 | N/A | |
| text style control | french | 135 | 1405.0 | 529 | N/A | |
| text | japanese | 144 | 1285.9 | 909 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry legal and government | 149 | 1398.1 | 2,477 | N/A | |
| text style control | multi turn | 150 | 1392.2 | 7,183 | N/A | |
| text style control | coding | 151 | 1433.6 | 6,911 | N/A | |
| text | german | 152 | 1348.2 | 1,017 | N/A | |
| text | korean | 154 | 1297.5 | 781 | N/A | |
| text style control | creative writing | 154 | 1349.6 | 5,141 | N/A | |
| text style control | longer query | 155 | 1389.8 | 7,036 | N/A | |
| text style control | english | 156 | 1397.9 | 19,750 | N/A | |
| text | polish | 157 | 1328.8 | 2,616 | N/A | |
| text style control | hard prompts | 158 | 1402.5 | 16,228 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry business and management and financial operations | 158 | 1379.5 | 6,057 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry entertainment and sports and media | 158 | 1348.7 | 6,779 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry software and it services | 158 | 1419.0 | 12,729 | N/A | |
| text style control | instruction following | 158 | 1372.7 | 10,058 | N/A | |
| text style control | exclude ties | 159 | 1359.2 | 27,891 | N/A | |
| text style control | hard prompts english | 159 | 1413.0 | 8,737 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry writing and literature and language | 159 | 1360.6 | 8,678 | N/A | |
| text | french | 160 | 1355.0 | 529 | N/A | |
| text style control | overall | 160 | 1383.0 | 39,277 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry medicine and healthcare | 161 | 1397.7 | 2,322 | N/A | |
| text style control | non english | 163 | 1360.0 | 19,521 | N/A | |
| text style control | spanish | 164 | 1357.2 | 721 | N/A | |
| text style control | russian | 166 | 1361.2 | 2,627 | N/A | |
| text style control | expert | 168 | 1382.4 | 2,001 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry life and physical and social science | 171 | 1384.5 | 6,528 | N/A | |
| text | multi turn | 172 | 1352.8 | 7,183 | N/A | |
| text | expert | 175 | 1337.0 | 2,001 | N/A | |
| text | instruction following | 176 | 1332.3 | 10,058 | N/A | |
| text | longer query | 176 | 1344.0 | 7,036 | N/A | |
| text | coding | 177 | 1367.6 | 6,911 | N/A | |
| text style control | chinese | 177 | 1383.6 | 2,047 | N/A | |
| text style control | industry mathematical | 178 | 1364.1 | 2,478 | N/A | |
| text | spanish | 180 | 1308.1 | 721 | N/A | |
| text | hard prompts | 184 | 1349.0 | 16,228 | N/A | |
| text | industry legal and government | 184 | 1344.8 | 2,477 | N/A | |
| text style control | math | 184 | 1353.8 | 2,689 | N/A | |
| text | overall | 185 | 1340.8 | 39,277 | N/A | |
| text | hard prompts english | 185 | 1361.6 | 8,737 | N/A | |
| text | industry writing and literature and language | 185 | 1319.0 | 8,678 | N/A | |
| text | exclude ties | 186 | 1296.9 | 27,891 | N/A | |
| text | industry mathematical | 186 | 1346.3 | 2,478 | N/A | |
| text | industry software and it services | 188 | 1361.0 | 12,729 | N/A | |
| text | russian | 188 | 1317.4 | 2,627 | N/A | |
| text | industry entertainment and sports and media | 189 | 1301.1 | 6,779 | N/A | |
| text | math | 189 | 1343.1 | 2,689 | N/A | |
| text | non english | 189 | 1317.0 | 19,521 | N/A | |
| text | english | 190 | 1356.6 | 19,750 | N/A | |
| text | industry business and management and financial operations | 190 | 1321.4 | 6,057 | N/A | |
| text | creative writing | 192 | 1300.7 | 5,141 | N/A | |
| text | chinese | 195 | 1329.1 | 2,047 | N/A | |
| text | industry medicine and healthcare | 198 | 1326.1 | 2,322 | N/A | |
| text | industry life and physical and social science | 203 | 1328.0 | 6,528 | N/A |
Official vendor API PAYG pricing is summarized first. The table then lists individual provider offerings without treating their minimum as the official price.
| Helicone | gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14 | global | $0.40 | $1.6 | 1M | |
| OpenAI | gpt-4.1-mini | global | $0.40 | $1.6 | 1M |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
All published versions linked to this unique model. The score columns identify the version used by the current overall ranking.
| GPT-4.1 mini | 22.5 | N/A | 1M | 32.8K | No | Proprietary |
A concise description based on the published model registry.
GPT-4.1 mini provides a balance between intelligence, speed, and cost. It's a significant leap in small model performance, even beating GPT-4o in many benchmarks while reducing latency and cost.
Use the benchmark, Arena and pricing sections above as separate evidence. A missing field means the current data snapshot does not support that claim.
Data snapshot: 2026-08-07. Editorial model content is not available in the backend.
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Common questions about GPT-4.1-mini.
GPT-4.1-mini's default version was released on Apr 14, 2025.
GPT-4.1-mini's official API price is $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.6 per million output tokens via OpenAI. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.40 input and $1.6 output via Helicone.
GPT-4.1-mini is published under OpenAI in the model registry.
The default version has a 1M token context window.
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
2 published provider offerings are linked to the default version.
Nearby ranked alternatives include Qwen2.5 Coder 7B, Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking, Ministral 8B.