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GPT-Realtime-2.1 mini

by OpenAI

Current new · 43d mid tier mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$0.600

per 1M tokens

Output

$2.40

per 1M tokens

Blended

$1.05

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.060

10% of input — prompt caching

How this price is scoped: OpenAI prices this model per 1M tokens on three separate modalities: text at $0.60 input / $0.06 cached input / $2.40 output, audio at $10.00 / $0.30 / $20.00, and image input at $0.80 / $0.08. The tracked figures are the TEXT rates, matching how the other realtime rows are tracked.

Source: official OpenAI pricing · read Aug 17, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-18

Price receipt

We read OpenAI's own pricing page on Aug 17, 2026 and found gpt-realtime-2.1-mini listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is fb730533d2.

Overview

Distilled, lower-cost realtime voice model for WebRTC, WebSocket and SIP voice agents, and OpenAI's named replacement for GPT-Realtime mini. Text tokens $0.60/$2.40 per 1M; audio tokens $10/$20 per 1M.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 3/5
Text ✓ Image ✓ Audio ✓ Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 4/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal ✓ Web search Realtime ✓

Specifications

Provider
OpenAI
Context window
128K tokens
Modality
audio, text, image
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Jul 6, 2026
Status
Current
Last updated
Aug 17, 2026
Tags
realtimeaudiomid-tier

Availability verified: Aug 17, 2026 — listed on OpenAI's own page