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GPT-5 Search API: API pricing, providers and specs

GPT-5 Search API is a text model by OpenAI. 2 providers serve it, from $8 to $10 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.

Lowest price$8/1Mat APIMart
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers2
Context—Max output 128K

How GPT-5 Search API compares

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

  • Pricey for its class: at $8 /1M, its lowest price is above 83% of comparable models (median $1.10).
  • 2 providers serve it; 36% of comparable models have fewer.

GPT-5 Search API 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
APIMart$1/1M$8/1M——
OrcaRouter$1.25/1M$10/1M$0.125/1M—
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. APIMart$8
  2. OrcaRouter$10
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
—
Max output
128K
Capabilities
Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling, Vision
Released
—
License
—
Open weights
—

Alternatives to GPT-5 Search API

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ModelLowest priceContextArenaProviders
GPT-5 Search APIthis model$8/1M——2
Gemini 4 Argon$8/1M1.05M167326
Kimi K3$8.28/1M1.05M165547
Muse Wonder$16/1M1.05M—14
Claude Opus 5.5$16/1M1M180733
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B$4.11/1M1M—22
Grok 4.7$4.80/1M500K163728
Muse Spark 1.3$4.25/1M1.05M165711
Claude Sonnet 5.5$8/1M1M176732

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