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Vercel's 19 August 2026 changelog quotes Fish Audio text-to-speech at $15.00 per million characters. Fish Audio's own rate card says per million UTF-8 bytes. For Hindi or Chinese the two are not the same number.
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
OpenAI's 22 April 2026 deprecation email listed 18 model snapshots shutting down on 23 July 2026. The public deprecations page lists 15 of them. Here is the full map, what each one migrates to, the four shutdown dates
OpenAI Presence is a limited-availability, Forward Deployed Engineer-led product with no list price. The Realtime API is self-serve with published rates. Three numbers, and one eligibility question, decide which path
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.
