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Replacement for gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15: what changes when you switch

The official replacement is gpt-live-transcribe. gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 shuts down on 2027-02-26 per OpenAI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-24). Published on the official docs: context window 16,000 tokens, max output 2,000 tokens.

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gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 to gpt-live-transcribe

Some values not published Checked 2026-10-24.

Price per 1M tokens

Price comparison. Example monthly cost for 10M input tokens and 2M output tokens. Labeled example, not a bill.
FieldOldNewChange
Input Not published Not published Not published
Output Not published Not published Not published
Cached input Not published Not published Not published
Example monthly cost Not published Not published Example only

Context and max output

Token limits
LimitOldNewChange
Context window 16,000 Not published Not published
Max output 2,000 Not published Not published

Capabilities that differ

No differing capability values are published for both models.

Endpoint changes

Checklist

  1. Read the shutdown date for gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 on the linked official page.
  2. Point your requests at gpt-live-transcribe.
  3. Re-check price, context, and parameters on the provider pages linked here.
  4. Ship the change before the published shutdown date.

Questions

What is the replacement for gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15?

The official replacement is gpt-live-transcribe. gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 shuts down on 2027-02-26 per OpenAI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-24). Published on the official docs: context window 16,000 tokens, max output 2,000 tokens.

Is gpt-live-transcribe cheaper than gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15?

A full price comparison is not published. One or both prices are missing from the official pages we checked.

Does gpt-live-transcribe have a bigger context window than gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15?

Context window sizes are not both published on the official pages we checked.