GPT 4o mini Search Preview API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 16, 2026 at 08:05 AM

Overview

GPT 4o mini Search Preview was released on March 12, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.600 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 128K tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window

128K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.150

Output$0.600

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

Tools

Pricing Comparison

Compare GPT 4o mini Search Preview with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
O OpenAI	GPT-4o-mini Search Preview	$0.150	$0.600	—	—	—	128,000	Try
A Allenai	Olmo 3 7B Think	$0.120	$0.200	61.7	65.5	51.6	65,536	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 72B Instruct	$0.120	$0.390	27.6	72.0	49.1	32,768	Try
TC Tencent	Hunyuan A13B Instruct	$0.140	$0.570	—	—	—	131,072	Try
BD Baidu	ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B	$0.140	$0.560	—	—	—	30,000	Try
E Essential AI	Rnj 1 Instruct	$0.150	$0.150	—	—	—	32,768	Try
CO Cohere	Command R (08-2024)	$0.150	$0.600	—	—	—	128,000	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)	$0.150	$0.600	—	—	—	128,000	Try
MI Mistral AI	Ministral 3 8B 2512	$0.150	$0.150	30.3	64.2	47.1	262,144	Try
DS Deepseek	DeepSeek V3.1	$0.150	$0.750	57.7	83.3	73.5	32,768	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 4 Maverick	$0.150	$0.600	39.7	80.9	67.1	1,048,576	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

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GPT 4o mini Search Preview is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.150

Cheapest Input/M

$0.600

Cheapest Output/M

OpenAI

Best Price

Provider Pricing

3 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenAI Best Price	$0.150	$0.600	-
OpenRouter Best Price	$0.150	$0.600	-
A Azure Best Price	$0.150	$0.600	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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