Pricing change·May 4 → May 11, 2026·Week 20, 2026·AI & Machine Learning
OpenAI API raises GPT-Realtime-2 text output 50%, adds translate
What changed
Price increase
GPT-realtime-1.5 upgraded to GPT-Realtime-2 with text output price increased from $16.00 to $24.00 per 1M tokens (50% increase). Audio and image token prices unchanged.
New plan
Two new realtime API models added to OpenAI API: GPT-Realtime-Translate (live speech translation at $0.034/min) and GPT-Realtime-Whisper (streaming speech-to-text at $0.017/min).
Before and after
May 4, 2026 vs May 11, 2026Pulse.
100%
Change 1 of 2 · price increased
GPT-realtime-1.5 upgraded to GPT-Realtime-2 with text output price increased from $16.00 to $24.00 per 1M tokens (50% increase). Audio and image token prices unchanged.
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