OpenAI · Efficient
GPT 4.1 Mini
Mid-sized GPT 4.1, comparable to GPT4o with a far higher context window, at lower cost and with higher speed.
- Vision
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.40
- Output
- $1.60
- Cache read
- $0.10
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 32.8K
- Average output (7 days)
- 19 tokens
- Longer than 0% of 465 models
Side by side
GPT 4.1 Mini compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GPT 4.1 MiniOpenAIThis model | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct OriginalQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Balanced |
| Added | Sep 10, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 32.77K | 32.77K |
| Average output | 19 tokens | 288 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.40 | $0.30Best |
| Output | $1.60Best | $1.90 |
| Cache read | $0.10 | — |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 10.2Best | 9.9 |
| Coding Index | 20.2 | — |
| Math Index | 46.3 | 70.7Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT 4.1 Mini
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original
Intelligence Index
- GPT 4.1 Mini10.2
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original9.9
GPT 4.1 Mini: Better than 22% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 20.2
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 46.3
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 70.7Top
Agentic work
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 270 Elo
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 44.0%Top
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 32.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 5.0%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 6.6%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 66.4%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 71.2%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 78.1%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 82.3%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 38.3%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 42.7%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 48.3%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 59.4%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 46.3%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 70.7%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 43.0%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 92.5%
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 7.6%Top
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 6.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 52.9%Top
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 35.1%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT 4.1 Mini: 44.0%Top
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original: 32.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- GPT 4.1 Mini
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original
| Leaderboard | GPT 4.1 Mini | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Original |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | #11 · 1187.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | #12 · 1193.3 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 55.9%
- About $0.23 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-4.1-mini",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-4.1-mini",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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