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GPT 4.1 Mini
by OpenAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDAPILONG CONTEXTPAID
RANKED #104 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #176 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 5.9 · 141 VOICES
GPT-4.1 Mini is a mid-sized model delivering performance competitive with GPT-4o at substantially lower latency and cost. It retains a 1 million token context window and scores 45.1% on hard...
HAPPY8.9
12 mentions
SAD6.1
11 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 92 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
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 Mini is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.5
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick for top tier local multimodal reasoning and coding without cloud dependency.💻 STRONG AT CODE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE5.7k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.7
Mistral SmallMistralPick for fast multimodal assistance and efficient daily tasks on consumer hardware.🪶 RUNS ON LESS⚡ FAST🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE922 VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.5Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuPick for strong open-weight MoE reasoning across text, vision, and audio tasks.💸 COST EFFICIENT🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY❤️ CROWD FAVORITE2.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with GPT 4.1 Mini right now.
130 POSTS · 11 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · GITHUB · REDDIT · DEV.TO · DEV FORUMS · BLUESKY · X · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (4 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
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- 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 · 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
- REDDIT · 2026-01-29 · 335 UPVOTESOpenAI will retire GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini from ChatGPT on February 13
OpenAI will retire GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini from ChatGPT on February 13
- REDDIT · 2025-04-11 · 270 UPVOTESModel page arts have been discovered for upcoming model announcements on the OpenAI website, including GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1-mini, and…
Model page arts have been discovered for upcoming model announcements on the OpenAI website, including GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1-mini, and GPT-4.1-nano
- REDDIT · 2025-04-11 · 211 UPVOTESModel page artworks have been discovered for upcoming model announcements on the OpenAI website, including GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1-mini, and…
Model page artworks have been discovered for upcoming model announcements on the OpenAI website, including GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1-mini, and GPT-4.1-nano
- REDDIT · 2026-01-29 · 140 UPVOTESOfficial: Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
Official: Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
- REDDIT · 2025-04-27 · 69 UPVOTESEpoch AI has released FrontierMath benchmark results for o3 and o4-mini using both low and medium reasoning effort. High reasoning effort…
Epoch AI has released FrontierMath benchmark results for o3 and o4-mini using both low and medium reasoning effort. High reasoning effort FrontierMath results for these two models are also shown but they were released previously.
- REDDIT · 2025-04-24 · 60 UPVOTESI just found out about Context7 MCP Server and it's awesome!
I just found out about Context7 MCP Server and it's awesome!
- REDDIT · 2025-04-19 · 53 UPVOTESArtificial Analysis has released o4-mini, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano test results for 8 benchmarks
Artificial Analysis has released o4-mini, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano test results for 8 benchmarks
- REDDIT · 2025-04-24 · 40 UPVOTESOpenAI-MRCR results for Grok 3 compared to others
OpenAI-MRCR results for Grok 3 compared to others
- REDDIT · 2025-04-21 · 38 UPVOTESOpenAI-MRCR results for Llama 4 family
OpenAI-MRCR results for Llama 4 family
- REDDIT · 2025-07-16 · 36 UPVOTESWe made GPT-4.1-mini beat 4.1 at the game of Tic-Tac-Toe using dynamic context
We made GPT-4.1-mini beat 4.1 at the game of Tic-Tac-Toe using dynamic context