Compare GPT 4.1 Mini from OpenAI and Grok 4.5 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GPT 4.1 Mini
Grok 4.5Lightweight, high-performance model with million-token context and near-flagship-level encoding and image understanding capabilities, while reducing costs by 83%. It is suitable for rapid development and small to medium-sized applications. The automatic caching mechanism provides a 75% cost reduction on cache hits.
Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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GPT 4.1 Mini: $1.6/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Grok 4.5: 1523; GPT 4.1 Mini: 1433 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GPT 4.1 Mini: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GPT 4.1 Mini accepts 1,047,576 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,768 tokens on GPT 4.1 Mini and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.
GPT 4.1 Mini at 58.0 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 31.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
GPT 4.1 Mini accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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