gpt-realtime
gpt-realtime 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 32k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- GPT Realtime
- Released
- 2025-10-06
- Context
- 32k
- Max output
- 4,096
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-10
- Specialization
- realtime-voice
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API · cache read $0.400
About
Realtime model capable of text and audio inputs and outputs via the Realtime API.
gpt-realtime is a proprietary model in the GPT Realtime family. The structured metadata tracks a 32k-token context window, multimodal input, and audio. This page tracks provider routes through OpenAI API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $4 input and $16 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for gpt-realtime yet.
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 | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | $4.00 | $16.00 | read $0.400 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(15)
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.
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.
Martian
RouterAI-powered LLM router that analyzes each prompt in real-time to select the optimal model, targeting 20–97% cost reduction while maintaining quality; San Francisco startup reportedly nearing $1.3B valuation.
Neutrino AI
RouterCommercial LLM router that dynamically routes each query to the best-suited model with load balancing and fallback handling, charging 3% of underlying AI spend.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Comparison and alternatives
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