OpenAI: GPT-4o Search Preview
GPT-4o Search Preview adds web-search capability to OpenAI's GPT-4o base, but without benchmark data of its own it cannot be scored above the conservative range. Businesses should treat this as a specialised search-augmented variant rather than a general-purpose reasoning model.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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GPT-4o Search Previewis 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 |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
| Output | $10.00 | $0.010000 |
