GPT-4o Search Preview

OpenAI · Released March 2025 · Knowledge cutoff October 2023

GPT-4o Search Previewis a specialized model for web search in Chat Completions. It is trained to understand and execute web search queries.

It is part of OpenAI's GPT family, where Sol, Luna and Terra mark the current generation's capability tiers and Pro servings trade speed for deeper computation.

Facts and pricing

Provider

OpenAI

Context window

128K tokens

Input price

27.5 credits / 1M tokens ($2.50 raw)

Output price

110 credits / 1M tokens ($10.00 raw)

Vision (image input)

No

Tool calling

No

Extended reasoning

No

Credits are what Zeplik bills: 1 credit = $0.10, computed from the raw provider rate with a 1.10x margin. Raw prices shown per 1M tokens.

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What GPT-4o Search Preview is best for

• Hard problems where answer quality matters more than cost: strategy, analysis, difficult writing

Example prompts

Prompts that suit a frontier model like GPT-4o Search Preview:

• Review this business plan and give me the three hardest questions an investor would ask
• Rewrite this announcement so it lands with both engineers and executives
• I am choosing between two job offers, help me think through the tradeoffs
• Draft a technical design doc for a rate limiter, including failure modes

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Frequently asked questions

What is GPT-4o Search Preview?

GPT-4o Search Preview is an AI model by OpenAI. GPT-4o Search Previewis a specialized model for web search in Chat Completions. It is trained to understand and execute web search queries.

How much does GPT-4o Search Preview cost on Zeplik?

Input tokens cost 27.5 credits per million and output tokens 110 credits per million (1 credit = $0.10; the raw provider rates are $2.50 and $10.00 per million). New accounts start with free credits.

How long can a conversation with GPT-4o Search Preview be?

GPT-4o Search Preview has a 128K-token context window (128,000 tokens), which covers the conversation plus any documents you attach.

Does GPT-4o Search Preview support images and tools?

GPT-4o Search Preview is text-only and does not support tool calling.

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