GPT-Realtime-2.1

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GPT-Realtime-2.1 from OpenAI: Realtime speech-to-speech model with configurable reasoning, tool use, and robust voice-agent behavior.

Key specifications

Specification score
67.6
Context window
128K
Max output
32K
Input / 1M tokens
$4.00
Output / 1M tokens
$24.00
License
Proprietary

The specification score summarizes recorded features and limits. It is not a benchmark result.

Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Text input
  • Audio input
  • Image input

Produces

  • Text output
  • Audio output

Capabilities

ReasoningFunction callingVisionAudio

What is GPT-Realtime-2.1?

What GPT-Realtime-2.1 is for

Realtime speech-to-speech model with configurable reasoning, tool use, and robust voice-agent behavior. The registry places it in the gpt family with a release date of 2026-07-06. This profile describes its documented interface and how to evaluate it for the intended task.

Inputs and request limits

The recorded inputs are text, audio and image, with text and audio output. The registry lists a 128,000-token context window and up to 32,000 output tokens. It also declares reasoning and function calling. These are specifications, not a measured quality or speed ranking. A host can impose its own request limits and support a different subset of features.

Deployment and cost

GPT-Realtime-2.1 is recorded as a hosted model without downloadable weights. Confirm the current model ID and access conditions on the chosen API. A registry listing alone does not establish that an account or region has access.

No independently checked token rate is added from a hosting alias. Use the route’s current price and billing unit when comparing cost, including output, reasoning, cache behavior and retries where applicable.

What to test

Listen to examples in the target languages and with difficult names or numbers. Check pronunciation, voice consistency and the playback format. For streaming, measure the time to first playable audio. Verify whether the provider bills by characters, duration or another audio unit.

Evidence and related models

This is a registry-sourced profile. A model-specific publisher document has not yet been confirmed; access and specifications should be checked before an integration decision. SyncDev has not independently benchmarked GPT-Realtime-2.1.

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How to evaluate GPT-Realtime-2.1

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Tasks and inputs

GPT-Realtime-2.1 is listed for Text-to-speech. It accepts text, audio, image and produces text, audio. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

Documented limits: 128K context and 32K maximum output. The listed route charges $4.00 input and $24.00 output per million tokens. Compare pronunciation, voice consistency and time to the first playable audio. Check the service’s billing unit for the actual script.

Choosing a deployment

Use the model identifier and account requirements for the selected API route. Confirm its request limits and output format with one complete task before connecting a larger workflow.

Frequently asked questions

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