GPT-4o-mini Search Preview
VerifiedOpenAI preview model blending compact design with search capabilities.
About GPT-4o-mini Search Preview
Designed as a compact variant in OpenAI's GPT-4o family, this preview release focuses on integrating search functionality into everyday text interactions. It remains closed-source with no option for local weights or fine-tuning by external parties. The architecture prioritizes low latency while supporting long-form context for coherent multi-turn exchanges.
Its primary strengths lie in rapid information synthesis and previewing retrieval-augmented tasks without requiring full-scale model resources. Users typically deploy it for early-stage application development, content drafting with external data references, and evaluating search preview features ahead of broader availability.
Capabilities
How GPT-4o-mini Search Preview compares
GPT-4o-mini Search Preview (striped bar) vs other language models on intelligence, speed and price.
Price
USD per 1M output tokens · Lower is better · GPT-4o-mini Search Preview ranks #36 of 98
Sources: Artificial Analysis (intelligence, speed) · OpenRouter (price).
Best for
Long document processing
The 128,000-token context window allows the model to analyze and reason over extensive inputs such as full reports or multi-turn conversations without truncation.
Cost-sensitive applications
As a compact LLM variant, it supports high-volume text generation and classification workloads where lower resource demands are prioritized.
Search preview generation
The Search Preview designation indicates suitability for producing concise summaries or highlights derived from search-style queries and retrieved information.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- +Fast and low-latency responses
- +Cost-efficient for scale
- +Up-to-date answers via search
- +Solid performance on routine tasks
Limitations
- –Text-only (no vision)
- –Less capable than larger models on hard reasoning
- –Preview version may have stability gaps
Cost calculator
Estimate what GPT-4o-mini Search Preview would cost for your usage.
Based on GPT-4o-mini Search Preview's $0.15/1M input · $0.60/1M output. Estimate only — actual cost varies by provider and caching.
Quick start
OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. Only the model slug changes between models.
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "openai/gpt-4o-mini-search-preview",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);Model slug: openai/gpt-4o-mini-search-preview
Editor's verdict
GPT-4o-mini Search Preview is OpenAI's proprietary language models with a 128K-token context window.
At $0.60 per 1M output tokens, it is very cost-efficient for its class.
It is available through OpenAI's API and aggregators like OpenRouter.
Best suited to fast and low-latency responses and cost-efficient for scale.
Frequently asked questions
The model provides a context window of 128,000 tokens.
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