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General reasoning and benchmark headroom.
LimitedOpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano is a budget multimodal generalist from openai with a fast runtime profile, large context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research / multimodal.
Benchmark blend
Dev workflow signal
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Budget tier
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Nano currently reads as a budget multimodal option with large context and a fast runtime profile.
Decision Strip
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General reasoning and benchmark headroom.
LimitedTTFT 0.47s
Above averageHow much prompt and task state can stay in view.
Above average$0.40 output / 1M
EfficientEditorial Profile
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For tasks that demand low latency, GPT‑4.1 nano is the fastest and cheapest model in the GPT-4.1 series. It delivers exceptional performance at a small size with its 1 million token context window, and scores 80.1% on MMLU, 50.3% on GPQA, and 9.8% on Aider polyglot coding – even higher than GPT‑4o mini. It’s ideal for tasks like classification or autocompletion.
openai multimodal profile
Long-context research / Multimodal with large context and fast runtime.
Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.
Large context headroom supports repo-wide prompts and long research sessions.
Vision-capable routing opens up multimodal review and extraction workflows.
Latency and throughput look responsive enough for interactive loops.
Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.
Image-grounded review, multimodal extraction, and UI audit workflows.
Long-context summarization, repo analysis, and policy or document review.
Benchmarks
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Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.
Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.
Formal reasoning, structured problem solving, and competition-style math.
Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.
Specs & Pricing
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This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.
Metadata
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