Transcribe audio
OpenAI speech to text
Hosted audio transcription API that turns uploaded recordings or live audio into text, with older models for speaker labels and timestamps.
Rate limits
Limits shown for gpt-transcribe.
| Tier | Requests per minute | Tokens per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Build | 5,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Launch | 10,000 | 10,000,000 |
| Grow | 30,000 | 150,000,000 |
Source3GPT-Transcribe model page
Other limits
Read from OpenAI’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/transcribe-audio/openai-transcription.md