Total Cost per Task combines search cost and model inference cost.
OpenAI Web Search costs ~$0.05 per task: ~$0.04 for search at $10 per 1k web_search calls and ~$0.009 for the model. Search makes up about 80% of the cost, close to the 74% median for Search APIs.
On Artificial Analysis Search Index vs. Cost per Task, OpenAI Web Search sits below the cost frontier. Octen reaches 77 at ~$0.024 per task, and Perplexity (medium) reaches 80 at ~$0.07.
