Using GPT Realtime Whisper on OpenAI API

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at OpenAI API and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the OpenAI API SDK or REST API to call gpt-realtime-whisper — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.017/min. See full pricing.

Code Examples

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()  # reads OPENAI_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-realtime-whisper",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on OpenAI API

Capabilities

About GPT Realtime Whisper

GPT Realtime Whisper is OpenAI's streaming speech-to-text model, released May 7, 2026. It transcribes spoken audio live as a speaker talks rather than waiting for utterance completion, making it suitable for live captions, meeting notes, classroom transcripts, and real-time agent pipelines. The model is exposed through /v1/realtime/transcription_sessions and is priced per minute at $0.017 rather than per token.