GPT Audio
by OpenAIChatretires 2027-01-20
The gpt-audio model is OpenAI's first generally available audio model. The new snapshot features an upgraded decoder for more natural-sounding voices and maintains better voice consistency.
- Context
- 128K tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Released
- 2026-01-19
- Weights
- Closed
openai/gpt-audio · also seen as gpt-audio-2025-08-28
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-01-19
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text, Audio
- Output
- Text, Audio
- Context window
- 128,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 16,384
- Providers
- 2 + 2 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $2.50 in · $10 out per 1M tokens · across all 2 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-01-19
- Knowledge cutoff
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel tools
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio output
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messages
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streaming
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $2.50 in / $10 out per 1M tokens at OpenAI on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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Similarly priced models
Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
| Model | Blended/1M | In/1M | Out/1M | Context | vs GPT Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command ACohere | $3.75 | $2.50 | $10 | 256K | +0% |
| Command A PlusCohere | $3.75 | $2.50 | $10 | 128K | +0% |
| Command A ReasoningCohere | $3.75 | $2.50 | $10 | 256K | +0% |
| Command R+Cohere | $3.75 | $2.50 | $10 | 128K | +0% |
| GPT-4oOpenAI | $3.75 | $2.50 | $10 | 128K | +0% |
| Palmyra X4Writer | $3.75 | $2.50 | $10 | 128K | +0% |
| GPT-5.2 ChatOpenAI | $3.79 | $1.75 | $14 | 128K | +1% |
| GPT-5.2 CodexOpenAI | $3.79 | $1.75 | $14 | 400K | +1% |
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