GPT-4.1 (batch)
by OpenAI · openai/gpt-4.1:batch · #289 cheapest of 422 paid models
Prices updated Sep 19, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC · refreshed hourly
GPT-4.1 is a flagship large language model optimized for advanced instruction following, real-world software engineering, and long-context reasoning. It supports a 1 million token context window and outperforms GPT-4o and...
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Pricing
Input
$1.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$4.00
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$1.75
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.25
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for GPT-4.1 (batch) with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $1.75 | $0.106 | — |
| 50% | $1.47 | $0.0685 | −35% |
| 90% | $1.24 | $0.0385 | −64% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates for this provider’s batch API. Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.0017 | $1.70 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.012 | $12.00 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.038 | $38.00 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.17 | $170.00 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
12.7
AA composite quality
Coding Index
—
Math Index
34.7
Agentic Index
—
Output speed
0 tok/s
median
Time to first token
0s
median
Time to first answer
0s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 80.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 66.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.2% |
| LiveCodeBench | 45.7% |
| MATH-500 | 91.3% |
| AIME | 43.7% |
| AIME 2025 | 34.7% |
| IFBench | 43.0% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 68.3% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 13.6% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 47.1% |
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,051 |
| UI components | 1,015 |
| Data viz | 1,117 |
| 3D | 878 |
| Game dev | 1,103 |
| Code categories | 1,040 |
Specs
Context window
1.05M
tokens
Max output
33K
tokens
Input modalities
image, text, file
Tokenizer
GPT