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OpenAI API pricing
OpenAI, OpenAI, 2026
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- What it is
- OpenAI's price list for its API, including per-minute prices for transcription models.
- How much weight it carries
- A vendor price page, reliable for that vendor's own price only on the date checked. Prices change often.
Facts taken from this source
- OpenAI's API price list shows its gpt-4o-mini-transcribe model at $0.003 per minute.
“gpt-4o-transcribe Transcription $2.50 $10.00 $0.006 / minute gpt-4o-mini-transcribe Transcription $1.25 $5.00 $0.003 / minute” (Pricing table, Transcription rows)
- OpenAI's price table lists token prices for gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe as well as per-minute estimates.
“gpt-4o-transcribe Transcription $2.50 $10.00 $0.006 / minute gpt-4o-mini-transcribe Transcription $1.25 $5.00 $0.003 / minute” (Text and audio model price table)
- OpenAI lists its gpt-live-1 voice sessions at $0.05 per minute, billed per second, with the backend model and tool usage charged separately.
“Price per minute gpt-live-1 $0.05 Realtime and audio generation models” (Multimodal models: GPT-Live sessions)
- OpenAI lists gpt-realtime-2.1 audio output at $64.00 per 1M tokens and audio input at $32.00 per 1M tokens.
“Prices per 1M tokens unless noted. Model Modality Input Cached input Output / cost gpt-realtime-2.1 Audio $32.00 $0.40 $64.00” (Realtime and audio generation models table)
- OpenAI's price list gives gpt-realtime-whisper, for live transcription, at $0.017 per minute.
“gpt-live-transcribe Live transcription - - $0.017 / minute gpt-realtime-whisper Live transcription - - $0.017 / minute” (Text and audio model price table)
- OpenAI's price list shows its gpt-transcribe model at $0.0045 per minute and gpt-4o-transcribe at $0.006 per minute.
“gpt-transcribe Transcription - - $0.0045 / minute gpt-4o-transcribe Transcription $2.50 $10.00 $0.006 / minute” (Audio tokens table)
- OpenAI's price table puts its per-minute speech rates in a column headed Estimated cost.
“Model Use case Input Output Estimated cost gpt-realtime-translate Live translation - - $0.034 / minute” (Price table header)
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