OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Search Preview

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memory비전도구 활용

OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini Search Preview은 일반 대화, 분석, 운영 환경에 맞춘 텍스트 모델입니다. 안정적인 범용 성능, 128K tokens의 컨텍스트, 저비용 특성을 결합해 general chat, analysis, and production workloads에서 안정적인 작업을 돕습니다. 특히 품질, 속도, 비용가 중요한 경우에 잘 맞으며, 안정적인 출력, 유연한 배포, 확장성을 중시하는 팀에 실용적입니다. 안정적인 응답, 넓은 문맥 처리, 그리고 시제품부터 운영까지 이어지는 유연성이 필요할 때 유용합니다. 안정적인 응답, 넓은 문맥 처리, 그리고 시제품부터 운영까지 이어지는 유연성이 필요할 때 유용합니다.

Input

$0.15/1M

Output

$0.60/1M

Cached

$0.01/1M

Batch

$0.07/1M

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Technical specifications

GPT-4o-mini Search Preview at a glance.

Memory

128,000

tokens

Max reply

16,384

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

tiktoken-o200k

Released

Mar 2025

Training cutoff

Oct 2023

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick GPT-4o-mini Search Preview

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.
  • Code generation, review, or refactoring.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, GPT-4o-mini Search Preview costs roughly $35 per month. Input is $0.15 /1M tokens and output is $0.60 /1M tokens.
GPT-4o-mini Search Preview has a 128,000-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, GPT-4o-mini Search Preview supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
GPT-4o-mini Search Preview was released in March 2025, with training data cut off around October 2023.
Models in a similar class include GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18), GPT-4.1 Nano, GPT-5.4 Nano. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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