Fact · Voice and AI
1.02US dollars per hour of audio
At OpenAI's listed price of $0.017 per minute for live transcription, one hour of audio with gpt-realtime-whisper costs about $1.02.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- The cost of one hour of audio sent continuously to the live transcription model at the listed per-minute rate, before any discounts.
- How it is calculated
- 0.017 x 60 minutes = 1.02
- What it does not show
- List price at the date checked. Live transcription is priced per minute of audio, so the figure is what a continuous hour would cost at that rate.