GPT Realtime Translate
GPT Realtime Translate is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- GPT Realtime 2
- Released
- 2026-05-07
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-09
- Specialization
- translation
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API
About
GPT Realtime Translate is OpenAI's live speech-to-speech translation model, released May 7, 2026. It translates spoken input from 70+ languages into 13 output languages in real time without requiring speakers to pause or complete full sentences. The model is exposed through the /v1/realtime/translations endpoint and is priced per minute at $0.034 rather than per token.
GPT Realtime Translate is a proprietary model in the GPT Realtime 2 family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input and audio. This page tracks provider routes through OpenAI API. No headline benchmark score is tracked for GPT Realtime Translate 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 | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | - | - | 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
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
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Comparison and alternatives
Browse all comparisons →Frequently asked questions
When was GPT Realtime Translate released?
GPT Realtime Translate was released on 2026-05-07.
Which providers offer GPT Realtime Translate?
GPT Realtime Translate is available from 1 provider: OpenAI API.
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API