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$0.0045per minute
OpenAI's price list shows its gpt-transcribe model at $0.0045 per minute and gpt-4o-transcribe at $0.006 per minute.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“gpt-transcribe Transcription - - $0.0045 / minute gpt-4o-transcribe Transcription $2.50 $10.00 $0.006 / minute”
OpenAI API pricing, OpenAI, OpenAI, 2026, Audio tokens table.
Open the original- What it measures
- Programmatic (API) prices for developers, billed by audio length.
- What it does not show
- A vendor price on one date, in the US, excluding any editing or review.
Source
Used to calculate
- At $0.0045 per minute an hour of audio costs about $0.27 through OpenAI's API, against about $119.40 at Rev's $1.99 per minute for human transcription, roughly 440 times more.
- At OpenAI's listed price of $0.0045 per minute, one hour of audio transcribed with gpt-transcribe costs about $0.27.
- A user who dictates two hours on each of 21 workdays sends 2,520 minutes a month, which costs about 15.12 US dollars a month at gpt-4o-transcribe prices.
- At OpenAI's listed price, one hour of audio transcribed with gpt-4o-transcribe costs about 0.36 US dollars.
- At the list price for gpt-4o-transcribe, one hour of audio costs about $0.36.
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