GPT-4o Mini Transcribe
Half the price of the full transcription model and the cheapest managed option OpenAI offers. Accuracy holds up well on clean audio; test it specifically on noisy recordings, strong accents, and technical vocabulary before committing, since that is where the gap to the larger model shows.
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gpt-4o-mini-transcribe Price
$0.003
/ audio min
Context
—
not token-based
Max output
—
varies
Pricing caveat: The OpenAI transcription endpoint caps uploads at 25 MB, which a single long recording will exceed.
Where GPT-4o Mini Transcribe fits
- Clean batch audio at volume
- Voice note transcription
- Draft transcripts for human review
- Prototyping before choosing a provider
Specifications
- API model ID
- gpt-4o-mini-transcribe
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Model family
- GPT-4o Transcribe
- Released
- March 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Context window
- —
- Max output
- —
- Native reasoning
- No
- Relative latency
- low
- Input modalities
- audio
- Output modalities
- text
- Open weights
- No
- Cached input
- —
- Batch discount
- —
Frequently asked
How much does GPT-4o Mini Transcribe cost?
GPT-4o Mini Transcribe is billed at $0.003 / audio min.
What is GPT-4o Mini Transcribe's context window?
Context limits for GPT-4o Mini Transcribe depend on the input format rather than a token count.
Is GPT-4o Mini Transcribe a reasoning model?
No. GPT-4o Mini Transcribe answers directly without a native thinking phase, which keeps latency and cost predictable.
What is GPT-4o Mini Transcribe best for?
Low-cost transcription inside the OpenAI stack. Half the price of the full transcription model and the cheapest managed option OpenAI offers. Accuracy holds up well on clean audio; test it specifically on noisy recordings, strong accents, and technical vocabulary before committing, since that is where the gap to the larger model shows.