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 · 1 year 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 MediumAvailable
GPT-5.4 Mini MediumAvailable
GPT-5.4 Mini Non-ReasoningAvailable
GPT-5 Mini MinimalAvailable
GPT-4.1 Mini1.0M$0.400$1.60Available
GPT-4o mini Search Preview128K$0.150$0.600Current
GPT-4o mini131K$0.150$0.600Available
GPT Realtime 2.1 Mini128K$0.600$2.40Available
GPT Mini400K$0.750$4.50Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
GPT-5.6 Sol1.1M$2.00$10.00
GPT-5.6 Terra1.1M$2.00$12.00
GPT-5.6 Luna1.1M$0.200$1.20
GPT-5.51.1M$5.00$30.00
GPT-5.4 NanoNano400K$0.200$1.25
GPT-5.41.1M$2.50$15.00
GPT-5.3 Codex400K$1.75$14.00
GPT-5.2 Codex400K$1.75$14.00
GPT-5.2410K$1.75$14.00
GPT-5.1410K$1.25$10.00

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