Does any API model have web search?

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Does any API model have web search? Is it planned?

For example, I’m writing to a bot to find it on the web, but it can’t do that right now.

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No, API models and endpoints do not have web search abilities or such a service.

The only way an API model can get onto the internet is by a function or injection that you write yourself.

Google has “grounding” on some models, employing Google search. However, making use of it, you have to follow terms - basically turning your chatbot into an ad for Google in every response.

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Hi @rus1243mor ! Knowing OpenAI, it will probably come out eventually. In the meantime, the only provider that I know of that delivers this wonderfully is Perplexity via their Sonar models, see here (I have used them myself). These days they also provide full citations (when I used it those were in beta).

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We’ve released web search in the API this week! ICYMI: New tools for building agents: Responses API, web search, file search, computer use, and Agents SDK

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This is great. I’m wondering if these new models will support image attachment as well? I’m getting the following error, seems limit is currently set to 0.

Request too large for gpt-4o-mini-search-preview in organization org-xyz on input-images per min: Limit 0, Requested 1. Visit https://platform.openai.com/account/rate-limits to learn more.