Tiny GPT-4.1 option for classification, routing, and very high-volume tasks
GPT-4.1 nano by openai is offered by 23 providers on this page. Its official list price is $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is SAP AI Core at $0.08 / $0.26 per 1M, about 1.4× below the list price.
Artificial Analysis rates it 9.6 on the Intelligence Index, with 11.1 for coding and 1.2 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.125 per 1M, that is roughly 77 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 149 tokens per second, with 0.7s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.0349, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAP AI Core | Cloud | $0.08 | $0.26 | — | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Poe | Gateway | $0.09 | $0.36 | $0.022 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Helicone | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Impossibl | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| OrcaRouter | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Azure Cognitive Services | First-party | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | deprecated |
| Pioneer | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.05 | $0.10 | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | deprecated |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| OpenAIOfficial | First-party | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.025 | — | 1,047,576 | 32,768 | deprecated |
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.
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 8.9 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.