Verified 2025-09-22 · sourced from OpenAI
GPT-4.1 Token Calculator, Pricing & 100K/1M Cost
Check OpenAI GPT-4.1 pricing, estimate 100K and 1M token cost, and size a real API budget before you send a single request. Standard pricing is $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens with a 128K token context window.
Quick answer: GPT-4.1 pricing per 1M tokens is $2.00 input and $8.00 output. Context window: 128,000 tokens.
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Context window
128,000 tokens
Input price
$2.00 / 1M
Output price
$8.00 / 1M
Cached input
Not published
Usage scenarios
Compare standard and cached pricing (where available) across common workloads.
| Scenario | Tokens in | Tokens out | Total tokens | Standard cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Quick chat reply Single user question with a short assistant answer | 650 | 220 | 870 | $0.0031 |
Coding assistant session Multi-turn pair programming exchange (≈6 turns) | 2,600 | 1,400 | 4,000 | $0.0164 |
Knowledge base response Retrieval-augmented answer referencing multiple passages | 12,000 | 3,000 | 15,000 | $0.0480 |
Near-max context run Large document processing approaching the 128K token limit | 112,000 | 16,000 | 128,000 | $0.352 |
Daily & monthly budgeting
Translate usage into predictable operating expenses across popular deployment sizes.
| Profile | Requests/day | Tokens/day | Daily cost | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team pilot | 25 | 75,000 | $0.300 | $9.00 |
| Product launch | 100 | 500,000 | $1.90 | $57.00 |
| Enterprise scale | 500 | 3,000,000 | $12.00 | $360.00 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does GPT-4.1 cost per 1,000 tokens?
At the published rates of $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens, a typical 1,000 token request (≈70% input, 30% output) costs about $0.0038.
What is the context window for GPT-4.1?
GPT-4.1 supports up to 128,000 tokens (128K), allowing large prompts and retrieval-augmented payloads in a single call.
How fresh is the GPT-4.1 pricing data?
Pricing is sourced from https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing and was last verified on 2025-09-22. The calculator updates automatically when models.json is refreshed.