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OpenAI Realtime API (gpt-realtime)

by OpenAI

Low-latency speech-to-speech for voice agents

Pros

  • Industry-leading conversational latency
  • Tight tool-use integration
  • Caching dramatically cuts cost

Cons

  • Token-based pricing is hard to forecast
  • Uncached cost can exceed $0.30/min
  • Requires engineering to deploy

✓ Where it shines / best for

  • Developers building real-time voice agents and assistants
  • Voice-enabled customer support and phone automation
  • Low-latency conversational apps requiring tool use

✕ Not the best fit for

  • No-code users wanting a ready-made app
  • Cost-sensitive batch TTS where flat per-character pricing is cheaper
  • Offline/on-device speech needs

Features

  • ✓ API access
  • ✓ Real-time
  • ✓ Multilingual
  • ✓ Voice agents
  • ✓ Low latency
  • ✓ Speech To Speech
  • ✓ Function Calling
  • ✓ Webrtc

Pricing

PlanPriceBillingNotes
Text input$4.00per 1M tokensgpt-realtime text input tokens
Text output$16.00per 1M tokensgpt-realtime text output tokens
Cached text input$0.40per 1M tokensCached input discount
Audio input$32.00per 1M tokensgpt-realtime audio input tokens
Cached audio input$0.40per 1M tokensCached audio input
Audio output$64.00per 1M tokensgpt-realtime audio output tokens

Pricing verified from the official source. Prices change often — confirm on the vendor's site before buying.

Specifications

modelgpt-realtime
modalityspeech-to-speech
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