Fact · Speech recognition
0.18US dollars per hour of audio
At the list price for gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, one hour of audio costs about $0.18.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- Converts OpenAI's per-minute estimate to an hour so it can sit beside per-hour prices from other providers.
- How it is calculated
- 0.003 x 60 = 0.18
- What it does not show
- OpenAI's price list gives a per-minute estimate, not a billing rule for long files.