About GPT-4.1
GPT-4.1 is a family of large language models launched by OpenAI in April 2025, available exclusively through the API. The series includes three models: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, offering significant improvements over GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini in coding, instruction following, and long-context comprehension. All models support up to 1 million tokens of context and feature a knowledge cutoff of June 2024. GPT-4.1 achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified (54.6%), MultiChallenge (38.3%), and Video-MME (72.0% on long, no subtitles). The mini model balances performance with 83% cost reduction and nearly half the latency of GPT-4o, while the nano model is the fastest and cheapest, excelling at classification and autocompletion. The family is optimized for real-world developer tasks, including building reliable AI agents, software engineering, document analysis, and customer request resolution. GPT-4.1 is not available in ChatGPT; its improvements will be gradually incorporated into the ChatGPT version of GPT-4o.
Key Features
Pros & Cons
- Significant coding benchmark improvement (21.4% abs over GPT-4o on SWE-bench)
- Best-in-class instruction following and long-context comprehension
- Multiple price/performance points with mini and nano models
- Lower latency and cost than previous GPT-4 series models
- 1M token context window enables large document processing
- Only available via API, not in ChatGPT
- GPT-4.5 Preview will be deprecated on July 14, 2025
- Exact pricing not disclosed in the announcement
- Nano model has lower accuracy on complex reasoning (9.8% Aider polyglot coding)
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