As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-transcribe/

# GPT-Transcribe

OpenAI, GPT Transcribe family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-07-28.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | `gpt-transcribe` | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions | https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-transcribe |
| Azure OpenAI (Microsoft Foundry) | `gpt-transcribe` |  | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/foundry-models/concepts/models-sold-directly-by-azure |

## Pricing

- Per minute: $0.0045
- Unit as published: per minute of audio
- Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: audio, text
- Output: text
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 40. 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: GPT-Live 1 (2026-07-08) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-live-1/
- After it from OpenAI: GPT-Live-1.1 (2026-10-15) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-live-1-1/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- Context-guided transcription: Accepts unstructured context, keyword hints and multiple language hints for domain terms. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-transcribe
- Whisper successor (found after launch): Replacement for whisper-1 and gpt-4o-(mini-)transcribe (shutdown Feb 26 2027). Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations

## Notes

File and Realtime transcription. Streaming sibling gpt-live-transcribe ($0.017/min). Cheaper than whisper-1 ($0.006/min).

```bash
curl https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions \
 -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" -F model=gpt-transcribe -F file=@audio.mp3
```

Sources:
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-transcribe
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
- Models overview: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models

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