GPT-4o Search is OpenAI's language model with a 128K context window and up to 16K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $2.50 / 1M input and $10.00 / 1M output. A GPT-4o variant specialized for understanding and executing web search queries via the Chat Completions API with integrated search tool support.
Specifications
Canonical IDopenai-gpt-4o-search
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorOpenAIOpenAI
Providers
Context Window128K tokens
Max Output16K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePdfText
Output ModalitiesText
Release Date · 1 year ago
Knowledge Cutoff

Capabilities

Input3/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities6/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Web Search
$ / query
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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OpenAI
gpt-4o-search-preview-2025-03-11
$2.50$10.00$1.25N/A$1.25$5.00
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OpenRouter
openai/gpt-4o-search-preview
$2.50$10.00N/A$0.035

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Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
GPT-5.51.1M$5.00$30.00Available
GPT-5.4 Mini1.1M$0.750$4.50Available
GPT-5.4 Nano1.1M$0.200$1.25Available
GPT-5.41.1M$2.50$15.00Available
GPT-5.3 Codex400K$1.75$14.00Available
GPT-5.2 Codex400K$1.75$14.00Available
GPT-5.2410K$1.75$14.00Available
GPT-5.1410K$1.25$10.00Available
GPT-5.1 Codex400K$1.25$10.00Available
GPT-5.1 Codex Mini400K$0.250$2.00Available
GPT-4o Search128K$2.50$10.00Current

Model IDs