GPT-4o Search Preview

GPT-4o with integrated web search, retrieving and citing current information from the internet during inference.

Strengths

Provides factual grounding with real-time web search results and source citations, combining language model capabilities with fresh information retrieval.

Best for

Tasks requiring current data, fact verification, or up-to-date context where citing sources matters — a step up from GPT-4o-mini Search Preview with longer context and stronger reasoning.

Limitations

Depends on search quality and may introduce latency from retrieval; not suitable for tasks where reproducibility or offline operation is required, or where web data would not improve the response.