In this work, the optoelectronic and mechanical properties of AlxIn1−xP combinations in the zinc-blende structure were studied for different Al concentrations. The energy band gaps $$\left( {{\text{E}}_{{\text{g}}}^{{\text{L}}} ,\,{\text{E}}_{{\text{g}}}^{\Gamma } ,\,{\text{E}}_{{\text{g}}}^{{\text{X}}} } \right)$$
E
g
L
,
E
g
Γ
,
E
g
X
, refractive index (n), high frequency and static dielectric constants (ɛ∞, ɛo), elastic parameters (C11, C12, C44) were investigated. Other mechanical properties such as bulk (Bu), shear (Cs), Young’s (Y0) moduli, Poisson ratio (σ), linear compressibility $$(C_{o} )$$
(
C
o
)
, Cauchy $$(C_{a} )$$
(
C
a
)
ratio, isotropy factor (A), bond stretching parameter $$(\alpha \,)$$
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α
)
, bond-bending force parameter $$(\beta \,)$$
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β
)
, internal-strain parameter $$(\xi )$$
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ξ
)
, and the transverse effective charge $$(e_{T}^{*} )$$
(
e
T
∗
)
were calculated. Also, the temperature and pressure dependences of these properties were studied. Our estimations were made with the empirical pseudo-potential method combined with the virtual crystal approximation incorporated the compositional disorder impact. There was a reasonable agreement between our determined outcomes and the accessible experimental values for the binary materials AlP and InP which give help for the consequences of the ternary combinations.