OpenAI's current premium speech-to-text model, and the id OpenAI names as the replacement for the gpt-4o-transcribe family. Pin gpt-transcribe on POST /v1/audio/transcriptions.
Modalities
Text → Text
Price
$0.0061 / min
Context
2K
Usage
How much this model is actually called here.
Rank
#112
of 113 active models
Tokens served
0
all-time
Platform share
0.0%
of all tokens
Pricing
Per minute of audio processed. Min billable: 1 minute.
$0.0061 / minWhen to use GPT Transcribe
Where this model earns its cost — and where it doesn't.
GPT Transcribe converts recorded audio into text. It targets the hard cases rather than clean studio audio: conversational speech, several speakers, background noise, and sentences that switch language mid-way (Vietnamese and English in one pass, for example).
On Kyma it is served through the same OpenAI-compatible transcription endpoint as the other speech-to-text SKUs — multipart `file` or JSON `audio_url`, with `json` and `text` response formats. Billing is per minute of audio, rounded up, with a one-minute minimum; the exact figure comes back in the response and in the X-Kyma-Cost-USD header.
This is file transcription. It is not the live streaming surface, and it is not audio-scene understanding. It returns a transcript, not segment timestamps, so subtitle work stays on whisper-v3-turbo.
Conversational audio transcription
Captures multi-speaker dialogue and natural speech patterns with high accuracy.
Noisy background dictation
Filters background interference to produce clean text from field recordings or calls.
Mixed language audio processing
Handles code-switched audio streams like Vietnamese and English in a single pass.
Migration off the gpt-4o-transcribe family
The id OpenAI names as the replacement for the models it shuts down on 2027-02-26.
Not ideal for: Do not use this model for generating audio, for live bidirectional speech, or when you need segment timestamps — it does not return them, and SRT/VTT output needs a model that does.
Quick start
Up and running in under two minutes.
- 1
Create an API key
Sign up and grab a key from the dashboard — $0.50 free credit, no card required.
Get API key → - 2
Make your first request
Drop in your key and send a chat completion — fully OpenAI-compatible.
curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "gpt-transcribe", "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Explain prompt caching in one paragraph."} ] }' - 3
Stream responses
Add
"stream": trueto receive tokens as they arrive.curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "gpt-transcribe", "stream": true, "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}] }'
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