GPT-4.1 Pricing — Token Costs & API Calculator
Official API pricing for GPT-4.1 by OpenAI, with context window, tokenizer details, and a plain-English cost estimate.
Pricing Details
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI |
| Input cost (per 1M tokens) | $2.00 |
| Output cost (per 1M tokens) | $8.00 |
| Context caching | Not supported |
| Batch API discount | 50% off |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Tokenizer | o200k_base (GPT-4o / o-series) |
ⓘ Introductory pricing: No longer listed on OpenAI's pricing page. Price could not be re-verified from a vendor source; treat as indicative.
Cost example
1,000 requests × 500 input tokens × 200 output tokens costs $2.60/month with GPT-4.1 at OpenAI's published rates.
Based on $2/1M input tokens and $8/1M output tokens.
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