OpenAI: GPT-4.1 vs OpenAI: GPT-5
Side-by-side specs, pricing, and benchmarks. Pick a winner for your team's use case.
Use it in a Space
Spin up a Switchy Space with either model — your whole team @-mentions it with shared context, pooled credits, one memory.
OpenAI: GPT-4.1OpenAI: GPT-5
Input $/Mtok$2.00 · $1.25
Output $/Mtok$8.00 · $10.00
OpenAI: GPT-4.1OpenAI: GPT-5
OpenAI: GPT-4.11048K tokens
OpenAI: GPT-5400K tokens
Bars use square-root scaling so a 1M-token window doesn't crush a 200K one.
OpenAI: GPT-4.1OpenAI: GPT-5
2025-04-14
2025-08-07
2025-03-15today
OpenAI: GPT-4.1
- Provider
- openai
- Context
- 1048k
- Input $/Mtok
- $2.00
- Output $/Mtok
- $8.00
- Max output
- —
- Modalities
- image, text, file
OpenAI: GPT-5
- Provider
- openai
- Context
- 400k
- Input $/Mtok
- $1.25
- Output $/Mtok
- $10.00
- Max output
- 128000
- Modalities
- text, image, file
Price delta
OpenAI: GPT-4.1 is $0.75/Mtok more expensive than OpenAI: GPT-5 on input. Output: OpenAI: GPT-4.1 is $2.00/Mtok cheaper than OpenAI: GPT-5.
Which to pick
Pick OpenAI: GPT-4.1 when you need its specific strengths (see its verdict). Pick OpenAI: GPT-5 for lower cost per token (full verdict).