What is GPT-Realtime-2.1?

GPT-Realtime-2.1 is an OpenAI realtime reasoning model for developers building voice agents, conversational AI assistants, and speech-to-speech applications. The model is designed to support fast interactive experiences where users can speak naturally and receive audio or text responses. GPT-Realtime-2.1 updates GPT-Realtime-2 with improved handling of alphanumeric recognition, silence, background noise, and interruptions. It supports text, audio, and image input, with text and audio output, while video is not supported. The model includes configurable reasoning effort so developers can balance reasoning depth, latency, and token usage for different voice-agent workflows. GPT-Realtime-2.1 also supports instruction following, function calling, tool use, and reasoning tokens for more complex applications. Its 128,000-token context window and 32,000-token maximum output allow it to manage longer conversations and richer task context. OpenAI lists support across endpoints such as Chat Completions, Responses, Realtime, realtime translations, realtime transcription sessions, Assistants, Batch, and related API services. The model’s documented pricing includes $4 per 1 million text input tokens, $0.40 per 1 million cached text input tokens, and $24 per 1 million text output tokens, with separate audio and image token pricing. GPT-Realtime-2.1 is not documented as supporting streaming, structured outputs, fine-tuning, or predicted outputs. By combining realtime speech, multimodal input, reasoning, function calling, and tool use, GPT-Realtime-2.1 gives developers a foundation for building sophisticated AI voice agents and interactive customer-facing applications.

Pricing

Price Starts At:
$0.40 per cached input
Free Trial Offered?:
Yes

Integrations

Offers API?:
Yes, GPT-Realtime-2.1 provides an API

Screenshots and Video

GPT-Realtime-2.1 Screenshot 1

Company Facts

Company Name:
OpenAI
Date Founded:
2015
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtime-2.1

Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
English

GPT-Realtime-2.1 Categories and Features