OpenAI: GPT Audio
GPT Audio is a specialised audio-in/audio-out model from OpenAI, but the absence of any benchmark data means its reasoning and task performance cannot be assessed — limiting its score despite the trusted provider.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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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. Audio is priced at $32 per million input tokens and $64 per million output tokens.
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Audio → Text + Audio |
| Tokenizer | GPT |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
| Output | $10.00 | $0.010000 |
