GPT-4o Transcribe / Mini Transcribe / Transcribe Diarize
Deprecated 2026-08-26, shutdown 2027-02-26 (with whisper-1); replacements gpt-transcribe (files) and gpt-live-transcribe (streaming). gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20 was separately deprecated 2026-07-20 in favour of the 2025-12-15 snapshot. Release date 2025-03-20 is the date of the gpt-4o-mini-tts/transcribe snapshots, not re-verified on an OpenAI launch post.
- Context window
- 16,000 tokens
- Max output
- 2,000 tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-06
- Input
- audio, text
- Output
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- input: $2.5 · output: $10 (per 1M tokens (USD) for gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize (~$0.006/min); gpt-4o-mini-transcribe $1.25 / $5 (~$0.003/min)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | gpt-4o-transcribe | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions | docs |
| OpenAI API | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions | docs |
| OpenAI API | gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions | — |
Notable capabilities (1)
- LLM-based transcription: Uses GPT-4o for speech-to-text with better accuracy than the original Whisper models; also usable in Realtime transcription sessions. source
Migrate to gpt-transcribe or gpt-live-transcribe.
Sources:
Other OpenAI models
GPT-6.1 Sol · GPT-6 Luna · GPT-6 Sol · GPT Image 2.5 Flare · GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst · GPT-6 Astra · GPT-Live-Transcribe · GPT-Transcribe · GPT-5.6 Terra · GPT-Live 1 · GPT-Realtime-2.1 · GPT-Realtime-2 · GPT-Realtime-Translate · GPT-Rosalind · GPT-Audio-1.5 (and gpt-audio / gpt-audio-mini) · GPT-5.3-Codex · gpt-oss-120b · gpt-oss-20b · GPT-4o mini TTS · text-embedding-3-large · text-embedding-3-small · GPT-5.6 Luna · GPT-5.6 Sol · GPT-Realtime-Whisper · GPT-5.5 Pro · GPT-5.5 · GPT Image 2 · GPT-5.4 · GPT-Realtime-1.5 · GPT-4.1 · GPT-4o · TTS-1 / TTS-1 HD · Whisper large-v3 / large-v3-turbo (open weights) · GPT-Realtime and GPT-Realtime mini · o3 · Whisper (whisper-1 API) · Sora 2