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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Mistral Medium 3

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OpenAI · 1M context | Mistral · 128k context

Pricing Comparison

Metric	GPT-4.1 Mini	Mistral Medium 3
Input / 1M tokens	$0.4	$0.4
Output / 1M tokens	$1.6	$2
Cached input / 1M	—	—
Context window	1M	128k
Provider	OpenAI	Mistral

Cost Calculator

Input tokens

Output tokens

Requests/day

💰 GPT-4.1 Mini saves $60.00/month (14% cheaper)

OGPT-4.1 MiniCHEAPER

Per request$0.001200

Daily$12.00

Monthly$360.00

Yearly$4,380.00

MMistral Medium 3

Per request$0.001400

Daily$14.00

Monthly$420.00

Yearly$5,110.00

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Choose GPT-4.1 Mini when…

✓ Cheaper for generation-heavy workloads (lower output cost)
✓ Larger context window (1M vs 128k) — better for long documents
✓ Optimized for: Cost-efficient 1M context tasks

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Choose Mistral Medium 3 when…

✓ Optimized for: Budget frontier tasks

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