Best GPT-4.1 Nano alternatives
Users may seek alternatives to GPT-4.1 Nano when its nano size reduces depth on complex tasks or when higher intelligence is needed despite efficiency trade-offs. This list covers seven other proprietary multimodal models from OpenAI and Anthropic with details on intelligence, speed, price, and context.
Multimodal model with 1M-token context for complex text and image tasks.
OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.
Google's fast multimodal model for efficient text, image, and video tasks.
Multi-agent multimodal model for massive context tasks
OpenAI's closed multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.
GPT Chat Latest supports the same text image and file modalities as GPT-4.1 Nano at a much higher $30 /1M price with unknown intelligence and speed values.
Multimodal model handling images, text, and files over vast contexts.
GPT-5.1 has a higher intelligence_index of 27.4 than GPT-4.1 Nano's 13 but costs more at $10 /1M tokens and runs slower at 115.83 t/s with a smaller 400000 context.
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GPT-5.2-Codex has the highest intelligence_index of 49 while supporting text and image inputs at scale.