GPT-4o-mini Search Preview
OpenAI · released Mar 12, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.60
- Cached
- None held
List price · per 1M tokens · OpenAI at 128K context · machine-readable source ↗
Our take
Written Sep 30, 2026GPT-4o-mini Search Preview is a hosted text model from OpenAI, and we list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host. Nothing here measures how good its answers are, so treat it as a candidate to trial on work you can check yourself.
Use it for text-only work where you want a hosted model and the listed rate is acceptable, or for long documents that need not be split up first — though reliable recall across a whole request is unverified in our data. Both listed hosts charge the same rate, so picking between them turns on something other than price. Skip it if you need measured quality evidence, a download, or a licence you can read before building on it.
The case for it
- Both listed hosts charge the same rate, so the choice between them is not a price decision.
- Long documents can go in whole rather than being split up first, though recall across the whole request is unverified in our data.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores are supplied, so the only way to judge the answers is to trial it on work you can check yourself.
- We list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host, and no licence is supplied, so we say nothing about what you may do with it.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Where to rent it
Prices checked between 4 hours and 2 months ago — each listing carries its own date.
OpenAI, direct
The lab is also the cheapest we hold. The strip above and this offer are the same one, so nothing on this page undercuts OpenAI on 128K of context.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.15 in / $0.60 out
- Context served
- 128K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.15 / $0.60checked 2 months ago | 128K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| OpenAIDirect | $0.15 / $0.60checked 4 hours ago | 128K16K max reply | not measured | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
OpenRouterAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | |||
| OpenAIDirect |
Tool calling: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list. JSON output: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list. Strict schema: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 publish no parameter list.
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- No independent board has scored it, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- 2 of 2 listings publish no parameter list, so what their API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- openai-gpt-4o-mini-search-preview