GPT-4.1 mini vs GPT-5 Mini
Compare GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-5 Mini side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Open Prompt, Image Captioning, OCR, Object Detection, and Classification.
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GPT-4.1 mini is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.
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GPT-4.1 mini vs GPT-5 Mini Comparison Table
Evals updated August 14, 2026Pricing updated August 16, 2026
| Property | GPT-4.1 mini | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Apr 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 400K |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.400 | $0.250 |
| Output $/1M | $1.60 | $2.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
GPT-4.1 mini vs GPT-5 Mini: Overview
GPT-4.1 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a smaller, faster, and cheaper variant of GPT-4.1 designed for high-throughput and cost-sensitive applications. It is multimodal, handling both text and images, and inherits the full model’s strengths in coding, structured outputs, and long-context reasoning. With support for up to 1 million tokens, it enables reliable processing of extended documents, multi-file codebases, and lengthy conversations while keeping latency low.
GPT-4.1 mini offers an efficient alternative to GPT-4.1 and replaced GPT-4o mini as the default ChatGPT model in May 2025. Despite being smaller, it matches or outperforms GPT-4o on several benchmarks, particularly for instruction following and real-world coding tasks. Ideal use cases include large-scale conversational systems, affordable developer tools, document analysis, and interactive assistants where speed and cost are critical.
GPT-5 Mini, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is a mid-tier variant of the GPT-5 family that balances cost, speed, and capability. It is multimodal, supporting both text and image inputs, and offers a substantial input context window of ~400,000 tokens with output lengths up to ~128,000 tokens. While less powerful than the full GPT-5, it inherits its safety tuning, instruction-following improvements, and multimodal reasoning, making it a practical choice for developers who need large context handling without the expense of premium models.
GPT-5 Mini is optimized for affordability while retaining strong reasoning performance. Benchmarks show it outperforming earlier models such as GPT-4o on many multimodal and medical VQA tasks, though it lags behind GPT-5 on the most complex problems. Ideal use cases include prototyping, scalable content generation, document analysis, and mid-range reasoning tasks where efficiency and context capacity matter more than top-tier accuracy.