I only tried a few conversations in the playground, just small ones asking about a bedtime story, for a few minutes or so. Nothing special. Yet, these tests already set me back $3. With the current pricing model, integrating the Realtime API into our SaaS applications seems unfeasible. I can’t see …

Their estimations of $0.06/min for input and $0.24/min for output seem to be a bit off. Even when push to talk is enabled I still feel like I am racking up a bill at a faster rate than that.

What I do not understand is minutes ago it showed token usage of 45K input vs. 4K output … for 3.6 minutes of talk… of which, there is just no way I recited 20K plus words… in 3.6 minutes… then… two minutes later it showed only 17K of which 1700 tokens out. What the heck? I was charged twice today…

I suspect it scales up as the conversation history gets longer, since it takes context in consideration. But since just for a small test I spend $3, I’m not really willing to confirm that theory for now. Anyways, I would be careful having longer conversations.

Look I’ve just had a short conversation using new Realtime feature and 20k tokens cost me $5 is it for real or a bug. It doesn’t match the price.

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I’m seeing the same thing about 14.5 cents per 1000 tokens, with a 1:7 i/o split 144 bucks per million approximately aligns with pricing> https://openai.com/api/pricing/ 100 bucks in, 200 bucks out pricey! the example they give *Audio input costs approximately 6¢ per minute; Audio output co…

Yep, it’s totally usable commercially at these prices for any sort of for-profit business unless you have millions of VC money to burn as a loss leader or for proof of concept.

I’ve talked to it for a minute it cost me 0.75 so an hour would be $45

[image] Diet: I don’t know if you get charged for unspoken (interrupted), generated speech I dug into that… My findings here: [image] Realtime API Details (Costs, Usage, etc.) Community Here’s some other costs tests around interruption… I first created a new proje…

Realtime API extremely expensive

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