OpenAI Realtime API Review (2026)
Speech-to-speech in a single model call, collapsing recognition, reasoning and synthesis into one hop.
In Depth
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Who it suits, and who it does not
Teams who want the shortest possible latency path and will accept less control over each stage.
Collapsing the pipeline means you cannot swap a cheaper component or inspect an intermediate transcript. Debugging is harder and the unit cost is higher than an assembled stack.
OpenAI Realtime API Pricing
Can it take a payment?
Full tracker →Books meetings or resolves the call and hands off. Taking money is out of scope for the product as sold.