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OpenAI GPT-4o Transcribe vs OpenAI GPT Transcribe

Specs, pricing, and capabilities side by side, plus outputs generated from identical prompts, so the only variable between the columns is the model.

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OpenAI's most accurate hosted transcription model, which follows a hint for names and terms and returns plain text without timestamps.

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OpenAI's high-accuracy transcription model for recorded audio, which follows a hint for names and terms and returns plain text without timestamps.

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Overview
Creator
OpenAI
OpenAI
Released
Mar 2025
Aug 2026
Available on
OpenRouterOpenAI
OpenRouterOpenAI
Model ID
openai/gpt-4o-transcribe
openai/gpt-transcribe
Specs
Pricing
$0.006 per minute of audio
$0.0045 per minute of audio
Type
Speech-to-text
Speech-to-text
Languages
Multilingual
Multilingual
Samples
Plain dictation
Baseline accuracy and punctuation on clean speech
0:00 / 0:10
Matches the script

Thanks for joining on such short notice. We moved the launch to Thursday, so could you send me your notes before lunch? I will share the final schedule with everyone tomorrow morning.

Matches the script

Thanks for joining on such short notice. We moved the launch to Thursday, so could you send me your notes before lunch? I will share the final schedule with everyone tomorrow morning.

Numbers and names
How dates, amounts, units and a surname are written out
0:00 / 0:19

Invoice 4471 is due on March 3rd, 2027. The total comes to $1,249.50 for twelve units, and the parcel weighs 2.5 kilograms. Please call Dr. Elena Markovich at 9:45 AM to confirm.

Invoice four four seven one is due on March third twenty twenty seven the total comes to one thousand two hundred forty nine dollars and fifty cents for twelve units and the parcel weighs two point five kilograms please call Dr Elena Markovic at nine forty five a m to confirm.

Two speakers over noise
Background noise, a second accent, speaker changes
0:00 / 0:13
32 words differ

Excuse me, is this seat taken?

Matches the script

Excuse me, is this seat taken? No, go ahead. Are you heading to the conference as well? I am. Do you know which stop it is? The one after the river, I think. We can walk over together.

Every transcript is the model’s first result for the shared clip (no cherry-picking), transcribed via OpenRouter. The clips are synthetic speech made with ElevenLabs v4, and an underlined word differs from the spoken script. Hover a copy icon to read the script.

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