GPT-4.1 vs GPT-5 Mini
We don't benchmark GPT-4.1 or GPT-5 Mini on Vision Evals. Both are proprietary under Proprietary, so commercial use per vendor terms. GPT-5 Mini is cheaper per token ($0.25/M vs $2/M input).
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GPT-4.1 is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.
GPT-4.1 vs GPT-5 Mini Comparison Table
Pricing updated November 5, 2026
| Property | GPT-4.1 | GPT-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Apr 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 400K |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $2.00 | $0.250 |
| Output $/1M | $8.00 | $2.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Supported | Demo |
| Classification | Supported | Demo |
| Object Detection | Supported | Demo |
| OCR | Supported | Demo |
| Visual Question Answering | Supported | Demo |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
GPT-4.1 vs GPT-5 Mini: Overview
GPT-4.1, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a multimodal large language model that advances the GPT-4 series with major improvements in coding, reasoning, and instruction following. It accepts both text and images, supports tool calling and structured outputs, and features an expanded context window of up to ~1 million tokens—enabling it to process very large documents, multi-file codebases, or long conversations in a single prompt. Its knowledge is current through June 2024.
The GPT-4.1 family includes standard, mini, and nano variants, offering trade-offs between performance, cost, and latency. While parameter counts remain undisclosed, the series improves efficiency and responsiveness compared to GPT-4, making it suitable for both enterprise-scale tasks and cost-sensitive applications. Common use cases include software development, technical research, knowledge management, multimodal analysis, and high-context enterprise assistants.
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.