GPT 4.1 Mini API pricing
Azure OpenAI · chat model · 1.0M context · ranked #818 of 1809 by input price
What GPT 4.1 Mini costs in practice
GPT 4.1 Mini is priced at $0.4 per million input tokens and $1.6 per million output tokens , with cached input billed at $0.1 per million — roughly 75% cheaper than fresh input, which matters if your app resends a large system prompt. Against the median priced chat model ($0.5/1M in), this sits at 1.25× cheaper.
Monthly cost examples
Assuming 1,200 prompt + 400 completion tokens per request unless noted, billed 30 days a month and without cache hits.
| Workload | Cost / month | Cost / day |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 requests/day | $33.6 | $1.12 |
| 10,000 requests/day | $336 | $11.2 |
| 100,000 requests/day | $3360 | $112 |
| 1M summaries/month | $3679.96 | $122.67 |
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Capabilities
Provider description
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...
Cheaper alternatives
Ranked by blended cost (3× input + 1× output) — cheaper, but check context and capabilities before switching.
| # | Model | Provider | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Cached $/1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini Exp 1114 | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 1.0M |
| 2 | Gemini Exp 1206 | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 2.1M |
| 3 | Gemma 3 27b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 131K |
| 4 | Gemma 4 26b A4b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 262K |
| 5 | Gemma 4 31b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 262K |
| 6 | Learnlm 1.5 Pro Experimental | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 33K |
Data provenance
This page is assembled from the sources below. Where two sources disagree, both are shown.
- Our input price: $0.4
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- Our output price: $1.6
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Frequently asked
› How much does GPT 4.1 Mini cost per 1,000 tokens?
About $0.0004 for input and $0.0016 for output tokens, based on the per-million rates on this page.
› Is GPT 4.1 Mini cheaper than other models?
By input price it ranks #818 of 1809 priced chat models in this index, putting it in the cheaper half of the market.
› How often is GPT 4.1 Mini's price checked?
The dataset was last refreshed 2026-09-13 13:40 UTC. Providers can change pricing at any time — verify with Azure OpenAI before committing to a budget.