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GPT-Realtime-2.1

by OpenAI

Current new · 43d flagship mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$4.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$24.00

per 1M tokens

Blended

$9.00

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

Cached input

$0.400

10% of input — prompt caching

How this price is scoped: OpenAI prices this model per 1M tokens on three separate modalities: text at $4.00 input / $0.40 cached input / $24.00 output, audio at $32.00 / $0.40 / $64.00, and image input at $5.00 / $0.50. The tracked figures are the TEXT rates, which is how GPT-Realtime-2 is tracked too, so the two rows compare like for like. Every text and audio rate is identical to GPT-Realtime-2; only the model generation differs.

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 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 a313f29946.

Overview

Realtime speech-to-speech model with configurable reasoning effort and tool use, updating GPT-Realtime-2 with better alphanumeric recognition and interruption handling. Text tokens $4/$24 per 1M; audio tokens $32/$64 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
realtimeaudioflagship

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