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Using o3 Deep Research on OpenAI API

Implementation guide · o3 · OpenAI

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OpenAI API exposes o3 Deep Research through model ID o3-deep-research. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenAI API and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenAI API SDK or REST API to call o3-deep-research — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $10.00/1M input, $40.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
OPENAI_API_KEY
Model ID
o3-deep-research

Use the model slug directly, e.g. "gpt-4o" or "gpt-4.1-mini".

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()  # reads OPENAI_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="o3-deep-research",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on OpenAI API

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$10.00
Output tokens$40.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About o3 Deep Research

o3-deep-research is OpenAI's advanced model for deep research, designed to tackle complex multi-step research tasks by synthesizing information from multiple sources at 200K context.

Model Specs

Released2025-10-10
Context200k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2024-06

Provider

OpenAI API
OpenAI API

OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States