BREAKING
OpenAI ships gpt-realtime-2.1 via API
What each new model brings
gpt-realtime-2.1
●Better phone numbers and emails
●Built on GPT-Realtime-2
2.1-minisame price
●Adds reasoning and tools
●Keeps existing mini pricing
The Realtime voice lineage
1GPT-4o-realtime Oct 2024
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2gpt-realtime Aug 2025
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31.5 Feb 2026
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4Realtime-2 May 2026
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52.1 Jul 2026
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call success rate
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prior rate
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context tokens
Cheap reasoning fuels voice agents
Available now on API and Playground
AI NEWS BLITZ
OpenAI has released gpt-realtime-2.1 and a smaller 2.1-mini through its Realtime API.