AIHacker Noon1 day ago
OpenAI Realtime API Costs Less Than Estimates
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Real production data from 4,000 sessions shows OpenAI's gpt-realtime-mini costs $0.063 to $0.082 per minute for a voice agent, far below the commonly quoted $0.46. Audio output tokens drive 80% of the bill. Clients should charge at least $0.20 per minute to cover worst-case scenarios.
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