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title: "OpenAI: GPT Audio — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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# OpenAI: GPT Audio — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> OpenAI: GPT Audio: $2.50/M in, $10.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# GPT Audio

OpenAI · released 2026-01-19

 $4.38 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $2.50 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $10.00 /M |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 128K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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...