Affordable GPT-4.1 lane for fast coding help and structured extraction
GPT-4.1 mini by openai is offered by 26 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 24 of them. Its official list price is $0.40 per 1M input tokens and $1.60 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Ofox at $0.32 / $1.28 per 1M, about 1.4× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
Artificial Analysis rates it 10.2 on the Intelligence Index, with 20.2 for coding. Against its lowest blended price of $0.56 per 1M, that is roughly 18 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 173 tokens per second, with 0.72s to the first token.
The context window is 1,047,576 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 1,000,000 to 1,047,576, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports tool use and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and PDF. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-04.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ofox | Gateway | $0.32 | $1.28 | $0.08 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Poe | Gateway | $0.36 | $1.40 | $0.09 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| NEAR AI Cloud | Gateway | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Abacus | Gateway | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| 302.AI | Gateway | $0.40 | $1.60 | — | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Azure | Cloud | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | deprecated |
| Azure Cognitive Services | Cloud | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | deprecated |
| OpenAIOfficial | First-party | $0.40 | $1.60 | $0.10 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
| Mode | Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fast | Vercel AI Gateway | $0.70 | $2.80 | $0.18 | — |
| fast | OpenAI | $0.70 | $2.80 | $0.18 | — |
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.