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GPT 4.1
by OpenAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDCODING HELPWRITING HELPPROBLEM SOLVINGLONG CONTEXT
RANKED #154 OF 253 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #251 OF 6,531 · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 946 VOICES
An advanced AI assistant designed to help with coding, writing, and problem-solving.
HAPPY7.7
161 mentions
SAD7.3
120 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 414 voices
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. OpenAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
GPT 4.1 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS5.4
Llama 4 MaverickMetaStrong multimodal reasoning and general capabilities with fast MoE inference.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY⚡ FAST❤️ CROWD FAVORITE2.1k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.6
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaHigh quality coding and vision that runs locally on consumer hardware.💻 STRONG AT CODE🪶 RUNS ON LESS🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE12.1k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.4Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuExcellent complex reasoning and multimodal understanding under an open license.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE2.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love GPT 4.1 for coding and feel it is worth the money. However, many complain about frequent outages, inaccuracies, and annoying refusals.
809 POSTS · 137 COMMENTS · BLUESKY · LEMMY · REDDIT · X · DEV.TO · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (16 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (8 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (4 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
16 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 8 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
3 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- PricePEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“GPT 4.1 is FANTASTIC at Unity dev when used in Visual Studio Code..”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Sam Altman keep boasting about new models but even GPT 4.1 turns into Chinese after first reply - and they keep posting AGI lol - answer is also nothing accurate.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for GPT 4.1.
Gemini 3.7 Flash
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GLM 5.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-05-06 · 1794 UPVOTESGoogle dropped a 68-page prompt engineering guide, here's what's most interesting
Google dropped a 68-page prompt engineering guide, here's what's most interesting
- REDDIT · 2026-01-29 · 1230 UPVOTESChatGPT is officially retiring GPT-4o (and GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini) on Feb 13th
ChatGPT is officially retiring GPT-4o (and GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini) on Feb 13th
- REDDIT · 2025-05-06 · 949 UPVOTESGoogle dropped a 68-page prompt engineering guide, here's what's most interesting
Google dropped a 68-page prompt engineering guide, here's what's most interesting
- REDDIT · 2025-08-01 · 890 UPVOTESGPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API
GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API
- REDDIT · 2025-06-14 · 815 UPVOTESLLM combo (GPT4.1 + o3-mini-high + Gemini 2.0 Flash) delivers superhuman performance by completing 12 work-years of systematic reviews in…
LLM combo (GPT4.1 + o3-mini-high + Gemini 2.0 Flash) delivers superhuman performance by completing 12 work-years of systematic reviews in just 2 days, offering scalable, mass reproducibility across the systematic review literature field
- REDDIT · 2025-09-10 · 797 UPVOTESThe AI Nerf Is Real
The AI Nerf Is Real
- REDDIT · 2025-04-24 · 552 UPVOTESOpenAI dropped a prompting guide for GPT-4.1, here's what's most interesting
OpenAI dropped a prompting guide for GPT-4.1, here's what's most interesting
- REDDIT · 2025-08-06 · 542 UPVOTESGPT-5 model art has now been pushed to the OpenAI CDN. With GPT-4.1 this happened a day before the launch - it's coming!
GPT-5 model art has now been pushed to the OpenAI CDN. With GPT-4.1 this happened a day before the launch - it's coming!
- REDDIT · 2025-08-06 · 503 UPVOTESJust a reminder that the context window in ChatGPT Plus is still 32k…
Just a reminder that the context window in ChatGPT Plus is still 32k…
- LEMMY · 2026-04-05 · 478 UPVOTESAnd just like that, the AI industry started caring about intellectual property
And just like that, the AI industry started caring about intellectual property
- REDDIT · 2025-04-14 · 428 UPVOTESOpenAI announces GPT 4.1 models and pricing
OpenAI announces GPT 4.1 models and pricing
- REDDIT · 2026-01-29 · 370 UPVOTES[ChatGPT] Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini
[ChatGPT] Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini