OpenAI TTS Pricing: 7 Models Tested Before Jan 6
OpenAI TTS pricing changes shape on 6 January 2027. That is the day OpenAI shuts down all three of its text-to-speech models, tts-1, tts-1-hd and gpt-4o-mini-tts, and the model it names as their replacement, gpt-realtime-2.1-mini, does not run on the same API. Its audio is also priced higher per token: $20 per million audio tokens,…