vs
14:0
overall capability wins (2 ties across 16 scored). GPT-4.1 leads overall.
- Reasoning9:0
- Coding4:0
- Arena1:0
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
Verdict
GPT-4.1 leads coding (widest gap: +43.5 on Aider); GPT-4.1 ranks higher on LMArena (+92 Elo); GPT-4.1 Nano is ~20.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than GPT-4.1.
- GPT-4.1 leads coding (widest gap: +43.5 on Aider)
- GPT-4.1 ranks higher on LMArena (+92 Elo)
- GPT-4.1 Nano is ~20.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than GPT-4.1
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- GPT-4.1
- $4
- GPT-4.1 Nano
- $0.20
GPT-4.1 Nano is about 20.0x 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
2024-06
-
API / provider
OpenAI
OpenAI
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
33K
33K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$0.10
Output $/1M
$8
$0.40
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3.50
$0.18
Speed
tok/s
95
160
TTFT (s)
0.35
0.18
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
80.6
65.7
GPQA Diamond
66.6
51.2
Humanity's Last Exam
4.2
3.8
AIME 2025
46.4
24.0
MATH-500
91.3
84.8
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
27.8
13.7
AA-LCR v1.1
68.3
20.3
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
61.2
40.1
IFBench
43.0
32.0
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
39.6
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
45.7
32.6
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
3.7
Aider Polyglot
52.4
8.9
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
38.1
25.9
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
30.1
0.3
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,415
1,322
| Metric | GPT-4.1 | 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 | 2024-06 | - | — |
| 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 | $2 | $0.10 | B +$1.90 |
| Output $/1M | $8 | $0.40 | B +$7.60 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3.50 | $0.18 | B +$3.33 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 95 | 160 | B +65 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 0.18 | B +0.17 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 80.6 | 65.7 | A +14.9 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 66.6 | 51.2 | A +15.4 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.2 | 3.8 | A +0.4 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 46.4 | 24.0 | A +22.4 pts |
| MATH-500 | 91.3 | 84.8 | A +6.5 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 27.8 | 13.7 | A +14.1 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 68.3 | 20.3 | A +48.0 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 61.2 | 40.1 | A +21.1 pts |
| IFBench | 43.0 | 32.0 | A +11.0 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 39.6 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 45.7 | 32.6 | A +13.1 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 3.7 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 52.4 | 8.9 | A +43.5 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 38.1 | 25.9 | A +12.2 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 30.1 | 0.3 | A +29.8 pts |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,415 | 1,322 | A +92 Elo |
GPT-4.1
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2 / $8
- Speed
- 95 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Previous-gen OpenAI instruction model with 1M context; still useful for long-document 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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