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Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-4.1 Mini

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Opus 5.5 costs 11× as much as GPT-4.1 Mini: $16.00 against $1.44 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Opus 5.5GPT-4.1 Mini
Input, per 1M tokens$4.00$0.40
Output, per 1M tokens$20.00$1.60
Context window1M1.05M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$2.60$0.256
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$16.00$1.44
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$42.00$4.00
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400354not measured

Which one should carry your traffic?

If GPT-4.1 Mini answers your requests as well as Claude Opus 5.5, moving that traffic saves 91% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. GPT-4.1 Mini does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

Claude Opus 5.5 profile · GPT-4.1 Mini profile · Measure it on your traffic