OpenAI: GPT Audio by OpenAI — $2.50 input / $10.00 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 128K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.
| Usage | Daily | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot (100/day) | $1.38 | $41.25 |
| Small app (1K/day) | $7.50 | $225.00 |
| Mid-scale (10K/day) | $100.00 | $3000.00 |
| Large scale (100K/day) | $2250.00 | $67500.00 |
openai/gpt-audioOpenAI: GPT Audio is an LLM developed by OpenAI. Input costs $2.50 per million tokens and output costs $10.00 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 128K tokens.
Via the OpenRouter API:
A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.
For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):
OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including OpenAI: GPT Audio. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is openai/gpt-audio.
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openai/gpt-audio. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.