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GPT-4o Mini Search Preview: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby OpenAIProprietary (API only)

GPT-4o Mini Search Preview is a text model by OpenAI. One provider serves it: AIHubMix, at $0.60 /1M.

Lowest price$0.60/1Mat AIHubMix
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers1
Context128KMax output 16K

How GPT-4o Mini Search Preview compares

Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

  • Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.60 /1M against a median of $1.10; 39% of comparable models cost less.
  • Its 128K-token context window is larger than 12% of them (median 262K), about 190 pages of text.
  • 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.

GPT-4o Mini Search Preview prices by provider

Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
AIHubMix$0.15/1M$0.60/1M$0.075/1M128K
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Maker
OpenAI
Inputs
Image, Text
Outputs
Text
Context
128K≈ 190 pages of text
Max output
16K
Capabilities
Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling, Vision
Released
—
License
proprietary
Open weights
No, API only

Alternatives to GPT-4o Mini Search Preview

Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.

ModelLowest priceContextArenaProviders
GPT-4o Mini Search Previewthis model$0.60/1M128K—1
GLM-5.3$1.10/1M1.05M162349
GLM-5.3-Flash$0.20/1M1.05M160845
Qwen3.8 27B$0.50/1M262K159133
Sonar$1/1M127K—9
GLM-5.2$1.80/1M1M160444
Grok Build 0.1$1.60/1M256K—18
Claude Haiku 5.5$0.30/1M1M158527
MiMo-V2.6-Pro$0.696/1M1.05M162521

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