OpenAI Web Search Debuts at No.5 in Search Benchmark, ~$0.05 per Task

OpenAI Web Search scored 74 in Artificial Analysis's Search Index, ranking 5th among 26 products. Each task costs about $0.05—mostly search API fees—and takes around 31 seconds, placing it mid-field on latency.

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