OpenAI: GPT-4o Search Preview

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryVisionTool use

OpenAI: GPT-4o Search Preview is a text model for general chat, analysis, and production use. It combines steady general-purpose performance with a 128K tokens context window and a premium profile. Use it for general chat, analysis, and production workloads when quality, speed, and cost matters.

Input

$2.50/1M

Output

$10.00/1M

Cached

$0.25/1M

Batch

$1.25/1M

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Technical specifications

GPT-4o Search Preview at a glance.

Memory

128,000

tokens

Max reply

16,384

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

tiktoken-o200k

Released

Mar 2025

Training cutoff

Oct 2023

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick GPT-4o Search Preview

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Code generation, review, or refactoring.
  • Multimodal pipelines mixing text + images.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, GPT-4o Search Preview costs roughly $588 per month. Input is $2.50 /1M tokens and output is $10.00 /1M tokens.
GPT-4o Search Preview has a 128,000-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, GPT-4o Search Preview supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
GPT-4o Search Preview was released in March 2025, with training data cut off around October 2023.
Models in a similar class include GPT Audio, GPT-4o (2024-11-20), GPT-4o Audio. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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