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OpenAI: GPT-4o mini Transcribe

openai/gpt-4o-mini-transcribe
active stt 1 provider
Compatibility only. Upgrade recommended.

Deprecated by OpenAI on 2026-08-26 for v1/audio/transcriptions and v1/realtime with shutdown on 2027-02-26, migrating to gpt-transcribe (v1/audio/transcriptions) or gpt-live-transcribe (v1/realtime), and still served here for compatibility until shutdown.

Playground

Lower-cost, lighter GPT-4o-mini-powered transcription model, available synchronously and streaming.

AuthorOpenAI
Languages1 languages
Statusactive

Providers

Different providers can host the same model. Choose one provider when you need a fixed backend, or let routing select among them.

ProviderSlugPer hourLatencyiFor TTS, latency is measured as time to first byte of audio. For STT, latency is measured as time to first token.ModesUptime
OpenAI 4 params
openai
$0.18
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Synchronous · Streaming

Supported languages

1 languages
English en

Features

Speech to text

Transcribes spoken audio to text.

speech_to_text
Synchronous

Transcribes a fully-submitted audio file in a single synchronous request via POST /v1/audio/transcriptions.

synchronous
Multilingual transcription

Supports 99 languages.

multilingual_transcription
Streaming

Real-time transcription over the WebSocket Realtime API.

streaming

Code

Client
Mode
Language

ElevenLabs SDK streaming STT

Streams microphone or file audio through the ElevenLabs-compatible allmodels route.

import { ElevenLabsClient } from "elevenlabs";

const client = new ElevenLabsClient({
  apiKey: process.env.ALLMODELS_API_KEY,
  baseUrl: "https://api.allmodels.io/el"
});

const connection = await client.speechToText.realtime.connect({
  modelId: "openai/gpt-4o-mini-transcribe",
  languageCode: "en"
}, {
  queryParams: {
    provider: {
      "only": [
        "openai"
      ]
    }
  }
});

// Send audio frames to connection, then handle transcript events.