GPT-Realtime

audiodeprecatedproprietary

Status: Deprecated · Succeeded by gpt-realtime-2.1

Intelligence
Speed
Context
32K
Max output
4K
Input price
$4/1M tokens
Output price
$16/1M tokens
Snapshots

Capabilities

Reasoning & Interaction
Tool Calling

Details

Provider OpenAI
Creator openai
Licenseproprietary
Statusdeprecated
Typeaudio
Input modalitiesaudio, image, text
Output modalitiesaudio
Open weightNo
Parameters—
Architecture—
Max duration—
Sample rate—
Channels—
Languages—
Genres—
Release date
Deprecation date
Retirement date
Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling
Call external functions and APIs

Endpoints

RealtimeWS
Low-latency streaming via WebSockethttps://api.openai.com/v1/realtime

Pricing

Audio tokensPer 1M tokens
InputCached inputOutput
Standard$32$0.4$64
Text tokensPer 1M tokens
InputCached inputOutput
Standard$4$0.4$16
Image tokensPer 1M tokens
InputCached inputOutput
Standard$5$0.5—

Family Comparison: gpt-realtime

ModelMax durationSample rateChannelsLanguagesGenresPricing
GPT-Realtime-Translate——————
GPT-Realtime-Whisper——————
GPT-Realtime-2.1 Mini—————$0.6$2.4
GPT-Realtime Mini—————$0.6$2.4
GPT-Realtime-1.5—————$4$16
GPT-Realtime-2.1—————$4$24
GPT-Realtime-2—————$4$24
GPT-Realtime—————$4$16

API

GET/v1/models/openai/gpt-realtime

GPT-Realtime

deprecated

Status: Deprecated

Changes · 12 entries
gpt-realtimeupdateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM
namegpt-realtime→GPT-Realtime
descriptionThis is our first general-availability realtime model, ca...→Status: Deprecated
statusactive→deprecated
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...→[{"label":"Audio tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns"...
page_urlhttps://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtim...→https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtime
deprecation_date2026-07-20
retirement_date2027-01-20
successorgpt-realtime-2.1
gpt-realtimeupdateb2f45bfOct 29, 2026, 03:29 AM
descriptionThis is our first general-availability realtime model, ca...→Status: Deprecated
gpt-realtimeupdate118451aSep 24, 2026, 07:08 AM
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...→[{"label":"Audio tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns"...
deprecation_date2026-07-20
retirement_date2027-01-20
successorgpt-realtime-2.1
gpt-realtimeupdatee3d7dedAug 31, 2026, 04:13 AM
statusactive→deprecated
page_urlhttps://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtim...→https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtime
gpt-realtimeupdated68a4f1Jun 10, 2026, 02:10 AM
namegpt-realtime→GPT-Realtime
gpt-realtimeupdatee8ec634Mar 24, 2026, 07:27 PM
knowledge_cutoff2023-09→2023-10
gpt-realtimeupdatef43e286Mar 24, 2026, 04:45 AM
capabilitiesstreamingnovisionnostructured outputnojson modenofine tuningnoreasoningno
gpt-realtimeupdate1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM
knowledge_cutoff2023-10→2023-09
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-realtime→https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtim...
gpt-realtimeupdateb301ebeMar 23, 2026, 11:47 PM
knowledge_cutoff2023-09→2023-10
gpt-realtimeupdate2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
model_typeaudio
licenseproprietary
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-realtime
open_weightno
tools["function_calling"]
release_date2025-08-28
gpt-realtimeupdateb50649fMar 21, 2026, 11:58 PM
model_typeother
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...
knowledge_cutoff2023-09
taglineModel capable of realtime text and audio inputs and outputs
capabilitiestool callyes
endpoints["realtime"]
gpt-realtimecreate7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM