#OpenAI Realtime API

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Voice agent cost comparison 2026: MAI-Voice-2-Flash at $15 per 1M characters vs OpenAI Realtime

AI & Cloud Infrastructure · Aug 4, 2026 · 16 min read

Voice agent costs in 2026: MAI-Voice-2-Flash at $15 per 1M characters vs OpenAI Realtime at $64

Microsoft prices MAI-Voice-2-Flash at $15 per 1M characters and MAI-Transcribe-1.5 at $6 per 1,000 minutes. OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2.1 bills $32 in and $64 out per 1M audio tokens. Different units, very different bills

Manu Shukla

#voice agents #MAI-Voice-2 #OpenAI Realtime API

Editorial hero: real-time voice AI in 2026 with reasoning, tool use, lower cost

AI Tools · Jul 19, 2026 · 11 min read

$0.04 a minute: gpt-realtime-2.1 voice agents with reasoning and tool use (2026 build guide)

OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2.1 and its mini added reasoning and tool use to speech-to-speech voice agents on July 6, 2026. Here is the real per-minute cost math and how to architect a production build.

Manu Shukla

#voice agents #OpenAI Realtime API #gpt-realtime-2.1