GPT-5 Search API

OpenAI official pay-as-you-go API pricing and cost estimates

OpenAIgpt-5-search-api

Official Pricing Breakdown

Estimate Monthly Cost
Standard pricing · USDBilling Unit: 1M tokens

Input Price

US$ 1.25

Output Price

US$ 10.00

Cached Input

US$ 0.125

Specialized Search category; long-context / batch / fast / flex / ultrafast tiers excluded as duplicates

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Technical Specifications

Context Window
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Not cataloged
Release Date
Not cataloged
Official announcement date
Spec Source & Verification
Spec not independently verified
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API Cost Estimator

Estimated from daily requests & average token volume (per 1M tokens · Standard pricing · USD)

Presets:
Projected Monthly Cost
US$ 169.20/ mo
Daily Requests
11K10K100K1M
Avg Input Tokens / Request
04K32K128K2M
Avg Output Tokens / Request
02K8K32K128K
Prompt Cache Hit Rate (20%)▼

Cached tokens are included within average input tokens, not an additional amount. Presets provide typical hit rates.

0%25%50%75%100%
Monthly Cost Breakdown
Monthly Cost DistributionInput: 28% · Cache Hit: 1% · Output: 71%
Base Input Cost (uncached): US$ 48.00
Cache Hit Input Cost (Monthly): US$ 1.20
Output Subtotal (Monthly): US$ 120.00
Cache Savings: US$ 10.80

Estimates are based on current public list rates and do not account for retries, rate limits, or enterprise discounts. Reasoning tokens are excluded if billed separately.

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Price Change History

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    GPT-5 Search API (API)

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