GPT 4.1 pricing for email summarization

Quick start

Call GPT 4.1 with the OpenAI Python SDK:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4.1",
    max_tokens=500,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Your prompt here"}]
)
# Cost: ~$0.0100 per call at standard rates
# Input:  $2.00/MTok
# Output: $8.00/MTok

How GPT 4.1 compares on cost

Per-call cost for all models scoring 50+ on email summarization benchmarks. Hover for details.

Cheapest viable option: GPT 5.6 Luna at $0.001200/call (88% less, 84/100 quality).

What drives email summarization cost

Individually cheap, collectively expensive. A single thread is small, but summarization runs across an inbox at volume, so per-call price multiplied by message count is the number that matters, not the cost of any one summary. This is the use case where a fast-tier model and batch processing usually beat a smarter model outright.

For GPT 4.1 specifically, that means output tokens cost 4.0x more than input, at $8.00 vs $2.00 per MTok. At this use case’s 3,000/500 token split, output accounts for 40% of the $0.0100 per-call cost.

GPT 4.1 quality benchmarks for email summarization

Benchmark data for email summarization is pending for GPT 4.1. Test against your own evaluation suite before moving to production.

Performance across all task types

GPT 4.1 scores by task type. Email Summarization highlighted.

Confidence scores are a third-party benchmark snapshot from week 29 of 2026. This snapshot is 10 weeks old, so treat the scores as directional and validate against your own evals.

About GPT 4.1

Backfilled on 2026-09-23. Prices confirmed by the provider pricing page and the LiteLLM cross-check. Release date not published in a machine-readable source. Not yet benchmarked, so never recommended.

Other models from GPT

You can compare GPT 4.1 head-to-head against any other model on our model comparison pages, or track how pricing has changed over time on the pricing history tracker.

Frequently asked questions