GPT-4.1 Nano

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...

by OpenAI

Overview

Quick stats across all benchmark runs.

Score

15 benchmarks

Avg Latency

4.5s

22 requests

Pricing

$0.10 in / $0.40 out

per 1M tokens

Context

1048K

tokens

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ModelScore
gpt-oss-20b+7%

Benchmark Performance

How this model performs across different benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreRank
Money Boy Cultural Literacy Test
43%
48 / 107

Price vs Performance

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Score Over Time

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Benchmark Activity

Number of benchmark runs over time

Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "openai/gpt-4.1-nano",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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