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Why use gpt-realtime-mini on OpenAI API?
OpenAI API offers gpt-realtime-mini with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.60/1M input tokens. OpenAI is a leading AI research and deployment company dedicated to developing safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI) for humanity.
Input / 1M
$0.60
Output / 1M
$2.40
Cache
read $0.060
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install openaiAuth
export OPENAI_API_KEY=...Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI() # reads OPENAI_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(Model ID
gpt-realtime-miniRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI() # reads OPENAI_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-realtime-mini",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use the model slug directly, e.g. "gpt-4o" or "gpt-4.1-mini".
- The examples expect OPENAI_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.60 |
| Output tokens | $2.40 |
| Image input | $0.80 |
| Audio input | $10.00 |
Capabilities
MultimodalAudio
About gpt-realtime-mini
gpt-realtime-mini is OpenAI's GPT Realtime model with multimodal text and image input. It offers a 32K-token context window.
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Model Specs
Released2025-10-06
Context32k
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2023-10