GPT-4o mini Search Preview is OpenAI's language model with a 128K context window and up to 16K output tokens, starting at $0.15 / 1M input and $0.6 / 1M output. A specialized GPT-4o mini variant trained to execute web search queries within the Chat Completions API for grounded, up-to-date responses.
Specifications
Canonical IDopenai-gpt-4o-mini-search-preview
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorOpenAIOpenAI
Providers
Context Window128K tokens
Max Output16K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFText
Output ModalitiesText
Release Date · 2 years ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 3 years ago
Deprecation Date

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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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$0.15$0.6$0.075$0.075$0.3

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
GPT-5.4 Mini400K$0.750$4.50Available
GPT-5 Mini1.0M$0.250$2.00Deprecating
GPT-5 Mini Medium————Available
GPT-5.4 Mini Medium————Available
GPT-5.4 Mini Non-Reasoning————Available
GPT-5 Mini Minimal————Available
GPT-4.1 Mini1.0M$0.400$1.60Deprecating
GPT-4o mini Search Preview128K$0.150$0.600Current
GPT-4o mini131K$0.150$0.600Deprecating
GPT Realtime 2.1 Mini—128K$0.600$2.40Available
GPT Mini400K$0.750$4.50Available

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GPT-6.1 SolSol1.1M$2.00$10.00
GPT-6 LunaLuna1.1M$0.100$0.500
GPT-6 SolSol1.1M$2.00$10.00
GPT-6 Astra—1.1M$10.00$50.00
GPT-5.6 Sol—1.1M$4.00$20.00
GPT-5.6 Terra—1.1M$2.00$12.00
GPT-5.6 Luna—1.1M$0.200$1.20
GPT-5.5—1.1M$5.00$30.00
GPT-5.4 NanoNano400K$0.200$1.25
GPT-5.4—1.1M$2.50$15.00

Model IDs

gpt-4o-mini-search-preview
gpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11
openai-gpt-4o-mini-search-preview
openai/gpt-4o-mini-search-preview