OpenAI · 2026-01-19
GPT Audio pricing
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.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What GPT Audio costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $233 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $3,150 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $2,040 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury 2.5 | inception | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.004 | 260K | $3.60 |
| Granite 4.2 8B | ibm-granite | $0.06 | $0.15 | $0.015 | 131K | $4.50 |
| Solar Mini 4 | upstage | $0.05 | $0.20 | $0.005 | 524K | $4.65 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VL | inclusionai | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | 131K | $4.86 |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | prism-ml | $0.08 | $0.13 | $0.04 | 262K | $5.16 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other GPT models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1 | $5 | $0.05 | 1.05M | $105 |
| GPT-6.1 Terra Pro | $1 | $5 | $0.05 | 1.05M | $105 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | $2 | $10 | $0.10 | 1.05M | $210 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol Pro | $2 | $10 | $0.10 | 1.05M | $210 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.01 | 1.05M | $10.50 |
| GPT-6 Luna Pro | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.01 | 1.05M | $10.50 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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How much does GPT Audio cost?
$2.50 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0075.
What is GPT Audio’s context window?
128,000 tokens, with up to 16,384 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to GPT Audio?
Mercury 2.5 costs $0.04 in and $0.15 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches GPT Audio’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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