Fact · Speech recognition
0.003US dollars per minute
OpenAI's API price list shows its gpt-4o-mini-transcribe model at $0.003 per minute.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“gpt-4o-transcribe Transcription $2.50 $10.00 $0.006 / minute gpt-4o-mini-transcribe Transcription $1.25 $5.00 $0.003 / minute”
OpenAI API pricing, OpenAI, OpenAI, 2026, Pricing table, Transcription rows.
Open the original- What it measures
- The price list shows per-minute estimated costs for transcription models in a separate row from their token prices. This row is the per-minute figure for the smaller model.
- What it does not show
- An estimated cost, read on 2026-10-17. Prices on the list can change, and the list does not say which audio length the estimate assumes.