OpenAI TTS / Realtime

OpenAI
class A live

OpenAI's steerable TTS (gpt-4o-mini-tts, tts-1) and Realtime voice API; 11 preset voices, no user cloning, token/character pricing.

Layer 1 — factual axes

API & price public · tts-1 $15/1M chars; Realtime token-priced secondary source ↗ 2026-07-04
Voices 11 official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Voice cloning no official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Languages ~57 (Whisper set) secondary source ↗ 2026-07-04
Weights closed official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Free tier no official source ↗ 2026-07-04

Layer 2 — output quality

1100 / 1600
Eligible for Best for API

OpenAI’s steerable TTS (gpt-4o-mini-tts, tts-1) and Realtime voice API; 11 preset voices, no user cloning, token/character pricing.

Data as of 2026-07-04 · verified 2026-07-04. One ruler for all tools. How we measure ↗