diff --git a/litellm/__init__.py b/litellm/__init__.py
index 25da650440..4f0b0a16be 100644
--- a/litellm/__init__.py
+++ b/litellm/__init__.py
@@ -756,6 +756,7 @@ from .utils import (
     create_pretrained_tokenizer,
     create_tokenizer,
     supports_function_calling,
+    supports_web_search,
     supports_response_schema,
     supports_parallel_function_calling,
     supports_vision,
diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 03e69acf4e..052857cd94 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -1975,7 +1975,7 @@ def supports_system_messages(model: str, custom_llm_provider: Optional[str]) ->
     )
 
 
-def supports_web_search(model: str, custom_llm_provider: Optional[str]) -> bool:
+def supports_web_search(model: str, custom_llm_provider: Optional[str] = None) -> bool:
     """
     Check if the given model supports web search and return a boolean value.
 
diff --git a/tests/litellm_utils_tests/test_utils.py b/tests/litellm_utils_tests/test_utils.py
index 42df7c495c..fea225e4a3 100644
--- a/tests/litellm_utils_tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/litellm_utils_tests/test_utils.py
@@ -477,6 +477,25 @@ def test_supports_function_calling(model, expected_bool):
         pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "model, expected_bool",
+    [
+        ("gpt-4o-mini-search-preview", True),
+        ("openai/gpt-4o-mini-search-preview", True),
+        ("gpt-4o-search-preview", True),
+        ("openai/gpt-4o-search-preview", True),
+        ("groq/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b", False),
+        ("groq/llama-3.3-70b-versatile", False),
+        ("codestral/codestral-latest", False),
+    ],
+)
+def test_supports_web_search(model, expected_bool):
+    try:
+        assert litellm.supports_web_search(model=model) == expected_bool
+    except Exception as e:
+        pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
+
+
 def test_get_max_token_unit_test():
     """
     More complete testing in `test_completion_cost.py`