As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# GPT-4o Transcribe / Mini Transcribe / Transcribe Diarize

OpenAI, GPT-4o family. Status: deprecated. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2025-03-20. Training cutoff: 2024-06.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | `gpt-4o-transcribe` | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions | https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-4o-transcribe |
| OpenAI API | `gpt-4o-mini-transcribe` | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions | https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-4o-mini-transcribe |
| OpenAI API | `gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize` | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions |  |

## Pricing

- Input: $2.50 per 1M tokens
- Output: $10 per 1M tokens
- Unit as published: 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: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: audio, text
- Output: text
- Context window: 16,000 tokens
- Max output: 2,000 tokens
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 98. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- Before it from OpenAI: TTS-1 / TTS-1 HD (2023-11-06) https://postcutoff.com/m/tts-1/
- After it from OpenAI: GPT-Realtime and GPT-Realtime mini (2025-08-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-realtime/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- 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: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-4o-transcribe

## Notes

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.

Migrate to [gpt-transcribe](gpt-transcribe.md) or [gpt-live-transcribe](gpt-live-transcribe.md).

Sources:
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-4o-transcribe
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-4o-transcribe/