OpenAIGPT-4.1 mini
GPT-4.1 mini is an OpenAI proprietary model, released 14 Apr 2025. Its best configuration (high reasoning effort) ranks #492 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 46.3 ±2.9, in the lower half. The ± is the point: 284 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in knowledge (49) and lowest in coding (41). At $0.700 per million tokens blended it is mid-priced. Output speed of 159 tokens per second puts it in the fastest quarter, with a first answer in 0.8 s. It has been measured at 2 reasoning-effort settings; this summary describes the best-scoring one, and the tabs above switch between them. Last measured 13 Oct 2026.
- Blended price
- $0.700/M
- $0.400 in · $1.60 out
- Output speed
- 159 tok/s
- measured by Artificial Analysis
- First answer
- 0.81 s
- first token 0.81 s
- Context
- 1.0M
- Full answer
- 3.96 s
- median, reasoning included
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 14 Apr 2025
- Overall index46
- Coding41
- Maths46
- Knowledge49
Versions
OpenAI has shipped 3 models under this name. Each is ranked on its own results; a newer version often has fewer results so far, which holds its index nearer the average until more arrive.
| Model | Released | Index | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.4 Minixhigh | 17 Mar 2026 | 56.3 | #206 |
| GPT-5 mini | 7 Aug 2025 | 56.5 | #202 |
| GPT-4.1 minihighthis page | 14 Apr 2025 | 46.3 | #492 |
Reasoning-effort configurations
The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Not stated” collects results from publishers that did not say which setting they used; for a reasoning model that is usually its thinking mode, but we do not assume it. Pick a setting here or at the top of the page to see its price, speed and category scores.
| Effort | Index | Rank | Speed | First answer | Chat reply cost | Categories |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| highbest | 46.3 | #492 | 159 tok/s | 0.81 s | $0.0006 | Coding 41 · Knowledge 49 · Maths 46 |
| not stated | 45.0 | #524 | 159 tok/s | 0.81 s | $0.0006 | Agents & tools 46 · Coding 39 · Composite 41 · Human preference 55 · Instruction following 55 · Knowledge 28 · Long context 45 · Maths 49 · Multimodal 47 · Reasoning 41 |
How its index has moved
8 Sept 2026 to 18 Oct 2026- high
- not stated
The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.
Benchmark results
See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.
Reasoning
| Benchmark | high | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamondeffort not stated | – | 65.8%#179 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| Arena Hard Promptseffort not stated | – | 1403#171 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| GPQA Diamond (AA)not in indexeffort not stated | – | 66.4%#332 | Artificial Analysis | |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in indexeffort not stated | – | 5.0%#453 | Artificial Analysis | |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals)not in index | 67.9%#95 | – | Vals AI | |
| Kagi LLM Benchmarkeffort not stated | – | 48.6%#89 | Kagi LLM Benchmark | |
| GPQA Diamond (HELM)not in indexeffort not stated | – | 61.4%#25 | HELM Capabilities | |
| ARC-AGI-1effort not stated | – | 3.5%#251 | ARC Prize | |
| ARC-AGI-2effort not stated | – | 0.0%#242 | ARC Prize | |
| CritPteffort not stated | – | 0.0%#315 | Artificial Analysis | |
| Chess Puzzlesnot in indexeffort not stated | – | 1.0%#144 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| Mystery Game Puzzlesnot in indexeffort not stated | – | 7.0%#123 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| LMCAnot in indexeffort not stated | – | 21.1%#157 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| DTBenchnot in indexeffort not stated | – | 68.8%#159 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub |
Coding
| Benchmark | high | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SciCodeeffort not stated | – | 40.4%#158 | SciCode | |
| WeirdMLeffort not stated | – | 37.6%#117 | WeirdML | |
| Arena Codingeffort not stated | – | 1433#167 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| LiveCodeBench | 58.2%#104 | – | Vals AI | |
| Aider Polygloteffort not stated | – | 32.4%#35 | Aider polyglot leaderboard | |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only)effort not stated | – | 23.9%#40 | SWE-bench | |
| SWE-bench Verified (any scaffold)not in indexeffort not stated | – | 23.9%#54 | SWE-bench | |
| CadEvalnot in indexeffort not stated | – | 16.0%#14 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)not in indexeffort not stated | – | 10.1%#194 | Artificial Analysis |
Agents & tools
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 7.6%#241 | Artificial Analysis | |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index | 52.9%#192 | Artificial Analysis | |
| BFCL Overall | 50.5%#24 | Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | |
| τ³-Banking (AA) | 5.4%#179 | Artificial Analysis |
Maths
| Benchmark | high | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3effort not stated | – | 6.7%#108 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| OTIS Mock AIMEeffort not stated | – | 44.7%#191 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| MATH Level 5effort not stated | – | 87.3%#25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| AIME (Vals) | 49.4%#60 | – | Vals AI | |
| MGSM | 87.8%#54 | – | Vals AI | |
| Omni-MATH (HELM)effort not stated | – | 49.1%#19 | HELM Capabilities | |
| MATH 500not in index | 88.0%#30 | – | Vals AI | |
| Arena Mathseffort not stated | – | 1353#196 | Arena (LMArena) |
Knowledge
| Benchmark | high | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verifiedeffort not stated | – | 12.7%#81 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| AA-Omniscienceeffort not stated | – | -53.6#422 | Artificial Analysis | |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.2%#100 | – | Vals AI | |
| LegalBench | 78.0%#100 | – | Vals AI | |
| CorpFin | 57.9%#84 | – | Vals AI | |
| TaxEval | 71.9%#68 | – | Vals AI | |
| MedQA | 84.6%#58 | – | Vals AI | |
| PRBench Financeeffort not stated | – | 30.4%#36 | Scale AI SEAL | |
| PRBench Legaleffort not stated | – | 30.4%#41 | Scale AI SEAL | |
| MMLU-Pro (HELM)not in indexeffort not stated | – | 78.3%#25 | HELM Capabilities | |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in indexeffort not stated | – | 20.3%#302 | Artificial Analysis | |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in indexeffort not stated | – | 7.3%#485 | Artificial Analysis |
Instruction following
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 38.3%#280 | Artificial Analysis | |
| IFEval (HELM) | 90.4%#9 | HELM Capabilities | |
| WildBench (HELM) | 83.8%#16 | HELM Capabilities | |
| Arena Instruction Followingnot in index | 1373#170 | Arena (LMArena) |
Human preference
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Text | 1383#172 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Creative Writingnot in index | 1349#168 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Multi-turnnot in index | 1393#162 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| Arena Longer Queriesnot in index | 1390#170 | Arena (LMArena) |
Multimodal
| Benchmark | high | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arena Visioneffort not stated | – | 1181#100 | Arena (LMArena) | |
| MMMU-Proeffort not stated | – | 58.7%#216 | Artificial Analysis | |
| VISTAeffort not stated | – | 41.1%#38 | Scale AI SEAL | |
| MMMU-Pro (Vals)not in index | 70.5%#68 | – | Vals AI | |
| MortgageTaxnot in index | 65.5%#40 | – | Vals AI |
Long context
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench 120k | 46.9%#22 | Fiction.live | |
| AA-LCR | 44.0%#342 | Artificial Analysis |
Composite
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Indexnot in index | 134.9#134 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 10.2#382 | Artificial Analysis | |
| HELM Capabilities meannot in index | 72.6%#19 | HELM Capabilities |
Safety & honesty
| Benchmark | not stated | Source | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORTRESSnot in index | 59.2%#6 | Scale AI SEAL | |
| MASKnot in indexpossible contamination | 50.0%#49 | Scale AI SEAL |
Where to run it
Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.
| Provider | Speed | First token | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Quantisation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure | 101 tok/s | 0.74 s | $0.440 | $1.76 | 1.0M | – |
| OpenAI | 98 tok/s | 0.79 s | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M | – |
| Azure | 87 tok/s | 1.45 s | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M | – |
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.100 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0006 | $0.0006 | 2.7 s |
| Summarize a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.0058 | $0.0031 | 4.6 s |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.0048 | $0.0035 | 10.3 s |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.030 | $0.017 | 26.0 s |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0011 | $0.0007 | 2.1 s |
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Questions people ask
- What are GPT-4.1 mini's benchmark scores?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, GPT-4.1 mini (high effort) scores 46.3 ±2.9 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in knowledge (49) and weakest in coding (41). That rests on 8 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
- How does GPT-4.1 mini rank?
- GPT-4.1 mini (high effort) is #492 of 785 ranked configurations on 25 Oct 2026. 284 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
- How much does GPT-4.1 mini cost per 1M tokens?
- As of 25 Oct 2026, GPT-4.1 mini costs $0.400 per 1M input tokens and $1.60 per 1M output tokens, $0.700 blended (three input tokens per output token).
- When was GPT-4.1 mini released?
- OpenAI released GPT-4.1 mini on 14 Apr 2025. BenchLeader has results for it at 2 reasoning-effort settings.
Data as of 25 Oct 2026. Compare these configurations.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “GPT-4.1 mini: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/gpt-4-1-mini.