OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Search Preview
GPT-4o-mini Search Preview from OpenAI is a low-cost, search-augmented model suited to lightweight research and SEO tasks, though its reasoning benchmarks are modest and it lacks vision or tool-use capabilities in this variant.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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GPT-4o mini Search Preview is a specialized model for web search in Chat Completions. It is trained to understand and execute web search queries.
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | GPT |
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
| Output | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
