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OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini

openai/gpt-4.1-mini

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GPT-4.1 Mini is a mid-sized model delivering performance competitive with GPT-4o at substantially lower latency and cost. It retains a 1 million token context window and scores 45.1% on hard instruction evals, 35.8% on MultiChallenge, and 84.1% on IFEval. Mini also shows strong coding ability (e.g., 31.6% on Aider’s polyglot diff benchmark) and vision understanding, making it suitable for interactive applications with tight performance constraints.

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Input Price

$0.40per 1M

Output Price

$1.60per 1M

Context

1M

Weekly Tokens

91.7B

Released

Apr 14, 2025

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Sample code and API for GPT-4.1 Mini

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

1

Get your API key

Create an API key from your OpenRouter dashboard and set it as an environment variable:

2

Make your first request

Use openai/gpt-4.1-mini with the OpenRouter API:

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

3

Enable streaming

Add "stream": true to your request body to receive responses as server-sent events:

Endpoint

POSThttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions
AuthorizationBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Content-Typeapplication/json
HTTP-Refereroptional — your site URL, for rankings
X-Titleoptional — your site name, for rankings
Modelopenai/gpt-4.1-mini

Parameters

NameTypeDefaultDescription
seedinteger—If specified, the inferencing will sample deterministically, such that repeated requests with the same seed and parameters should return the same result.
max_tokensinteger—This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response.
response_formatmap—Forces the model to produce specific output format.
toolsarray—Tool calling parameter, following OpenAI's tool calling request shape.
tool_choicestring or object—Controls which (if any) tool is called by the model.
temperaturefloat1This setting influences the variety in the model's responses.
top_pfloat1This setting limits the model's choices to a percentage of likely tokens: only the top tokens whose probabilities add up to P.