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Realtime API (public beta)

OpenAI · 1 October 2024

Realtime API lets developers build low-latency speech-to-speech apps over WebSocket on GPT-4o; audio costs about 6 cents per minute in and 24 cents out.

Streaming audio in and out over one connection, announced at DevDay 2024 with prompt caching (50% off cached input), vision fine-tuning and model distillation tools.

Date
Tuesday, 1 October 2024
Lab
OpenAI
Kind
feature
Access
closed API
Price
audio $100/$200 per 1M tokens at launch

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
Audio token price$100 input / $200 output per 1M tokens
about 6 and 24 cents per minute
company

Sources

  1. developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog
  2. simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/1/openai-devday-2024-live-blog/

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