Compare GPT 4.1 from OpenAI and GPT 4.1 (free) from OpenAI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
GPT 4.1GPT 4.1 (free)The latest flagship multimodal model supports million-token context, with encoding capability (SWE-bench 54.6%) and instruction-following (Scale AI 38.3%) performance significantly surpassing GPT-4o, while reducing costs by 26%, making it suitable for complex tasks. Its automatic caching mechanism offers a 75% cost reduction on cache hits.
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GPT 4.1: 1457; GPT 4.1 (free): 1456 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
GPT 4.1 (free): 0.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GPT 4.1 accepts 1,047,576 and GPT 4.1 (free) accepts 1,047,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,768 tokens on GPT 4.1 and 32,768 tokens on GPT 4.1 (free).
GPT 4.1 at 79.7 tok/s and GPT 4.1 (free) at 72.3 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
GPT 4.1 accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; GPT 4.1 (free) accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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