Fact · Transcription
0.006US dollars per minute
OpenAI's API price list shows its gpt-4o-transcribe model at $0.006 per minute, an estimated transcription cost.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 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 gpt-4o-transcribe.
- What it does not show
- An estimated cost, read on 2026-10-19. The list does not say which audio length the estimate assumes, and it gives no volume tiers or streaming price for this model.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as OpenAI gpt-4o-transcribe: 0.36 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Product
- gpt-4o-transcribe
- Mode
- Batch (recorded audio)
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- $0.006 per minute is $0.36 per hour.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 22 published figures for “Batch (recorded audio)” have a median of 0.21 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0.04 to 6.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 34 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 15 distinct sources.