GPT Image 2.6 Flare
Image generation
gpt-image-2.6-flare
$5 text in, $30 image out per 1M tokens
GPT-Audio-1.5 (and gpt-audio / gpt-audio-mini)
Model idgpt-audio-1.5
Price$2.50 text in, $10 text out per 1M tokens
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
65newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
- Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- Before it from OpenAI
- GPT-Realtime and GPT-Realtime mini28 Aug 2025
- After it from OpenAI
- GPT-Realtime-Whisper7 May 2026
- Weights
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.
How to call it
2 ways to use GPT-Audio-1.5 (and gpt-audio / gpt-audio-mini), with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | gpt-audio-1.5 |
https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions |
developers.openai.com |
| OpenAI API | gpt-audio-mini |
https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions |
developers.openai.com |
Pricing
| Text input | $2.50 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Text output | $10 per 1M tokens |
| Audio input | $32 per 1M tokens |
| Audio output | $64 per 1M tokens |
As published: “per 1M tokens (USD); gpt-audio same; gpt-audio-mini audio $10 / $20, text $0.60 / $2.40”.
Source: developers.openai.com, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text and audio
- Output
- Text and audio
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Training cutoff
- September 2024
- Released
- 23 February 2026
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Audio in / audio out over Chat Completions
Non-realtime REST alternative to the Realtime API: send audio and receive spoken audio plus text in one Chat Completions call, with streaming and function calling.
Notes
gpt-audio-1.5 released 2026-02-23 with gpt-realtime-1.5. Older gpt-audio (2025) and gpt-audio-mini (2025-10-06) were deprecated 2026-07-20 with shutdown 2027-01-20 (replacement gpt-audio-1.5); gpt-4o-audio-preview was shut down 2026-05-12. Chat Completions only (not Responses).
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