Giving up on Realtime - Mini
OpenAI Developer Community
April 23, 2026
I can confirm all of OP’s issues, as I am also using realtime-mini in production.
Despite its drawbacks, realtime-mini remains the only commercially viable model, so I’d love to see a realtime-1.5-mini in future.
Today, I was shocked to see that gpt-realtime-mini has been deprecated
Can you please clarify what is going on? Are we forced to move to the 6x more expensive realtime-1.5?
Thanks
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