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Apr 15, 2025

GPT-4.1 coding-focused AI models released by OpenAI to take on Google, Anthropic

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1. GPT-4.1 coding-focused AI models released by OpenAI to take on Google, Anthropic

GPT-4.1 has scored 52.4% on the Aider Polyglot Coding Benchmark, trailing behind DeepSeek V3 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet:

Aider LLM leaderboards.

  • GPT -4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano are the other 2 models in the family.

  • GPT-4.1 family supports up to 1M tokens of context.

  • Available only through the API and not via ChatGPT.

  • GPT-4.1 costs $2/M input and $8/M output tokens, vs. GPT-4o’s $2.50/M input and $10/M output tokens.

  • GPT-4.1 mini is priced at $0.40/M input and $1.60/M output tokens and GPT-4.1 nano at $0.10/M and $0.40/M.

  • GPT-4.5 will be phased out from OpenAI’s API on Jul. 14.

The GPT-4.1 family is faster than the GPT-4o series

OpenAI.

GPT-4.1 is also providing more accurate results on the SWE-bench Verified than GPT-4o, per OpenAI

OpenAI.

GPT-4.1 has scored 72% on MCQs from 30-60 min. videos without subtitles, per OpenAI

OpenAI.

  • Audio support appears to be missing, which was available on GPT-4o.

  • GPT-4.1 will become less reliable as more input tokens are provided.

  • Relatedly, o3 and o4-mini, rumored to excel at proposing new experiments, may debut soon.

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