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GPT-Realtime-2.1 vs Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus

Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 1 task where both are listed: GPT-Realtime-2.1 is a tier higher in 1 of 1 shared task.

GPT-Realtime-2.1

OpenAI's speech-to-speech models for the Realtime API, with configurable reasoning effort and tool use for voice agents.

Vendor
OpenAI
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
Released
6 Jul 2026
API price
$32 in / $64 out per 1M tokens (Audio tokens, USD per 1M (text tokens $4 in / $24 out).); $0.19 per minute of audio (Artificial Analysis 'Cost per Hour of Input Audio' for GPT-Realtime-2.1 Minimal, OpenAI ($11.307/hour: cost of its Big Bench Audio run normalised to input-audio length) divided by 60.)
License
proprietary
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to GPT-Realtime-2.1

Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus

Alibaba's API-only omni-modal model that understands audio and video and speaks back, with offline and realtime APIs.

Vendor
Alibaba (Qwen)
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
Released
30 Mar 2026
License
proprietary
Last verified
19 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus

Task by task

TaskGPT-Realtime-2.1Qwen3.5-Omni-PlusHigher tier
Voice agents
Models
B941 on Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (models) · CloudC861 on Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (models) · CloudGPT-Realtime-2.1

A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.

Same benchmark, both results

BenchmarkGPT-Realtime-2.1Qwen3.5-Omni-PlusSnapshot
Artificial Analysis Big Bench Audio (speech reasoning)
Accuracy on Big Bench Audio: spoken reasoning questions answered in audio (speech in, speech out), higher is better
95.8%98.7%19 Oct 2026
Artificial Analysis Speech Agent Arena (models)
Elo from blind pairwise votes on live voice-agent conversations (overall slice; GPT-Realtime-1.5 anchored at 1000), higher is better
94186119 Oct 2026