vs
16:0
overall capability wins (2 ties across 18 scored). GPT-4.1 Mini leads overall.
- Reasoning9:0
- Coding5:0
- Arena1:0
- Tool use1:0
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
Verdict
GPT-4.1 Mini leads coding (widest gap: +25.2 on SWE-Rebench); GPT-4.1 Mini ranks higher on LMArena (+60 Elo); GPT-4.1 Nano is ~4.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than GPT-4.1 Mini.
- GPT-4.1 Mini leads coding (widest gap: +25.2 on SWE-Rebench)
- GPT-4.1 Mini ranks higher on LMArena (+60 Elo)
- GPT-4.1 Nano is ~4.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than GPT-4.1 Mini
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- GPT-4.1 Mini
- $0.80
- GPT-4.1 Nano
- $0.20
GPT-4.1 Nano is about 4.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
OpenAI
OpenAI
Family
GPT-4 / o-series
GPT-4 / o-series
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Apr 14, 2025
Apr 14, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
33K
33K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.40
$0.10
Output $/1M
$1.60
$0.40
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.70
$0.18
Speed
tok/s
130
160
TTFT (s)
0.25
0.18
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
78.1
65.7
GPQA Diamond
66.4
51.2
Humanity's Last Exam
5.0
3.8
AIME 2025
40.2
24.0
MATH-500
92.5
84.8
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
20.3
13.7
AA-LCR v1.1
44.0
20.3
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
58.7
40.1
IFBench
38.3
32.0
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
23.9
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
48.3
32.6
Terminal-Bench 2.1
10.1
3.7
Aider Polyglot
32.4
8.9
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
48.9
—
SciCode
40.4
25.9
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
25.5
0.3
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,383
1,322
| Metric | GPT-4.1 Mini | GPT-4.1 Nano | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Family | GPT-4 / o-series | GPT-4 / o-series | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Apr 14, 2025 | Apr 14, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | OpenAI | OpenAI | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1M | tie |
| Max output | 33K | 33K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.40 | $0.10 | B +$0.30 |
| Output $/1M | $1.60 | $0.40 | B +$1.20 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.70 | $0.18 | B +$0.53 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 130 | 160 | B +30 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.25 | 0.18 | B +0.07 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 78.1 | 65.7 | A +12.4 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 66.4 | 51.2 | A +15.2 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.0 | 3.8 | A +1.2 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 40.2 | 24.0 | A +16.2 pts |
| MATH-500 | 92.5 | 84.8 | A +7.7 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 20.3 | 13.7 | A +6.6 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 44.0 | 20.3 | A +23.7 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 58.7 | 40.1 | A +18.6 pts |
| IFBench | 38.3 | 32.0 | A +6.3 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 23.9 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 48.3 | 32.6 | A +15.7 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 10.1 | 3.7 | A +6.4 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.4 | 8.9 | A +23.5 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 48.9 | — | — |
| SciCode | 40.4 | 25.9 | A +14.5 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 25.5 | 0.3 | A +25.2 pts |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,383 | 1,322 | A +60 Elo |
GPT-4.1 Mini
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.40 / $1.60
- Speed
- 130 tok/s · 0.25s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Mid-tier GPT-4.1 SKU with 1M context at low cost - common production default for long-document and tool workloads.
GPT-4.1 Nano
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.10 / $0.40
- Speed
- 160 tok/s · 0.18s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cheapest GPT-4.1 tier for classification, routing, and high-volume extraction with a full 1M context window.
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