Structured model outputs (Responses API) returning invalid JSON 80% of the time
OpenAI Developer Community
March 29, 2026
vb:
are you willing and able to share a clear repro for this, either here or via private message?
100% willing, happy to allocate time to provide as much detail as you’d need. This issue is significantly impacting our use case and may even be a deal breaker. So I would love to help with fixing this.
Additionally, Re: the idea that web_search may be causing this. This issue did indeed only start after adding this tool. However, native web_search support was a critial discriminator for us when comparing LLM providers.
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