GPT Realtime Mini

by OpenAI

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GPT Realtime Mini is a cost-efficient variant of GPT Realtime, built for voice agent and customer support deployments where speed and cost matter more than flagship reasoning. It accepts text, audio, and image inputs and produces text and audio outputs. The model operates with a 32,000 token context window and supports function calling for agentic interactions, delivering fast responses with reduced computational overhead for higher-volume voice applications.

Call GPT Realtime Mini on Opper over the realtime WebSocket. Sign up without a credit card. Get started

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
32K
Max output
4K
Text input price
$0.60 /1M$0.06 cache read
Text output price
$2.40 /1M
Image input price
$0.80 /1M
Audio input price
$10.00 /1M
Audio output price
$20.00 /1M
Released
Web search
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention with abuse monitoring
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

GPT Realtime Mini runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutputCache read
USNo$0.60$2.40$0.06

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=openai%2Fgpt-realtime-mini

Uptime and availability

GPT Realtime Mini runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

96.51%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting GPT Realtime Mini has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

OpenAI — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring only, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, 30-day window.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (30-day retention)
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content, 30 days, a person can view samples
Caching
Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call GPT Realtime Mini through the Opper gateway with one API key. Realtime models run over a WebSocket at wss://api.opper.ai/v3/realtime: open it, send session.start with this model, then stream audio both ways.

See the Opper realtime quickstart, the realtime protocol and the Opper multimodal skill.

GPT Realtime Mini is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import WebSocket from "ws";
const ws = new WebSocket("wss://api.opper.ai/v3/realtime", {
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OPPER_API_KEY}` },
});
ws.on("open", () => {
ws.send(JSON.stringify({
type: "session.start",
config: {
model: "openai/gpt-realtime-mini",
voice: "alloy",
instructions: "You are a concise voice assistant.",
},
}));
});
// Stream microphone audio in with { type: "audio.append", audio: <base64 PCM16> }
ws.on("message", (raw) => {
const ev = JSON.parse(raw.toString());
if (ev.type === "audio.delta") {
// ev.audio is base64 PCM16: play it
}
});

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