GPT-4o Mini Transcribe
GPT-4o Mini Transcribe is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Workloads that can use a 16k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- OpenAI Transcribe
- Released
- 2025-03-20
- Context
- 16k
- Max output
- 2,000
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-09
- Specialization
- speech-recognition
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API
About
GPT-4o Mini Transcribe is OpenAI's cost-efficient speech-to-text model based on GPT-4o mini, released March 20, 2025. Offers substantially better accuracy than Whisper at roughly half the price of gpt-4o-transcribe. Supports batch, Realtime transcription, and Assistants endpoints. Input: $1.25/1M audio tokens. Output: $5.00/1M text tokens. Practical: ~$0.003/min. API ID: gpt-4o-mini-transcribe.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | - | $5.00 | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(15)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
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Migration checks
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API versions
gpt-4o-mini-transcribegpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API