OpenAI's flagship GPT 4.1 model is now available on ChatGPT but you will have to pay to use it
OpenAI has officially rolled out its new GPT-4.1 series, including GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, to ChatGPT users. The company says that the new models bring notable upgrades in coding, instruction following, and long-context comprehension. 'These models outperform GPT4o and GPT4o mini across the board, with major gains in coding and instruction following,' OpenAI wrote on its blog post. advertisementAccess to these models on ChatGPT will only be available to paying users. In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) on May 14, OpenAI confirmed that its latest flagship model, GPT-4.1, is now live on ChatGPT. The announcement follows a broader launch of the GPT 4.1 family on OpenAI's API platform a month ago, where developers can already integrate and test the three versions -- full, mini, and nano. However, with the latest update, the models are now available to all ChatGPT users, except free users.
What's new in GPT-4.1?OpenAI claims that the GPT-4.1 significantly outperforms its predecessor GPT-4o in areas like coding and instruction following. The model is designed with a larger context window, which supports up to 1 million tokens. This means that it can process and retain more information at once. It also comes with a knowledge cutoff of June 2024. GPT 4o's knowledge cutoff is October 2023. advertisement
OpenAI has shared benchmarks on its official blog post, that claims that the GPT-4.1 shows a 21 per cent absolute improvement over GPT-4o in software engineering tasks and is 10.5 per cent better in instruction following. OpenAI says the model is now much better at maintaining coherent conversations across multiple turns, making it more effective for real-world applications such as writing assistance, software development, and customer support. 'While benchmarks provide valuable insights, we trained these models with a focus on real-world utility. Close collaboration and partnership with the developer community enabled us to optimise these models for the tasks that matter most to their applications,' OpenAI says.The mini and nano variants are scaled-down versions aimed at offering high performance with lower cost and latency. GPT-4.1 mini is reported to reduce latency by nearly half while costing 83 per cent less than GPT-4o. Nano, the lightest of the three, is OpenAI's cheapest and fastest model yet and is ideal for simpler tasks like autocomplete or text classification.'These models push performance forward at every point on the latency curve,' OpenAI writes. Who can use it?Only ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Team users will be able to access GPT-4.1. Free-tier users won't be getting the new model, at least for now. Instead, they will continue using GPT-4o, which OpenAI says will gradually incorporate improvements seen in the newer models.advertisementGPT-4.1 is also available through the API for developers and companies, with OpenAI positioning it as a more cost-efficient and powerful alternative to previous generations. The new pricing includes significant reductions: GPT-4.1 input costs start at $2 per million tokens, and the nano version is available from just $0.10 per million tokens. Prompt caching discounts have also been increased to 75 per cent to make repeated queries more affordable.The launch of GPT-4.1 comes as OpenAI has started phasing out earlier models. GPT-4.5 Preview, a research-focused release, was deprecated in the API on April 14, 2025. GPT-4, the model that powered ChatGPT Plus since March 2023, has already been discontinued. While GPT-4.1 isn't replacing GPT-4o inside ChatGPT, many of its capabilities are being folded into the GPT-4o experience. However, for users and developers looking for cutting-edge performance, direct access to GPT-4.1 via API or a ChatGPT subscription is now the way to go.
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