GPT-4.1 → GPT-5: cost per request on six tasks
GPT-5 costs between 35% less and 11% more than GPT-4.1 per request on six common tasks. It costs no more per result that works if its results work first time at least 66% as often as GPT-4.1's on search re-ranking, and 12% more often on translation. OpenAI has announced GPT-4.1's API shutdown for 2027-01-14.
List prices per million tokens
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Task | GPT-4.1 | GPT-5 | Change | Cheaper per result that works if it works first time at least |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answerInstructions, three help-centre passages and the customer's question in; a short answer out. | $8.40 | $6.75 | 20% less | 81% as often as GPT-4.1 |
| Invoice field extractionInstructions and one invoice's text in; about 15 fields as JSON out. | $7.00 | $5.63 | 20% less | 81% as often as GPT-4.1 |
| Lead scoringScoring rules and one lead's form answers in; a score and a one-line reason out. | $3.20 | $2.50 | 22% less | 79% as often as GPT-4.1 |
| Email reply draftInstructions and the email thread so far in; a reply of about 300 words out. | $6.20 | $5.88 | 5% less | 95% as often as GPT-4.1 |
| TranslationInstructions and about 500 words of text in; the same text in another language out. | $8.20 | $9.13 | 11% more | 12% more often than GPT-4.1 |
| Search re-rankingA search query and 20 result snippets in; the ids of the best five, in order, out. | $8.40 | $5.50 | 35% less | 66% as often as GPT-4.1 |
Token counts are typical sizes, not measurements.
GPT-4.1 is being shut down
OpenAI has announced GPT-4.1's API shutdown for 2027-01-14, with gpt-6-luna as the replacement (source).
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