GPT-Live-1 mini
The smaller GPT-Live voice model — full-duplex conversation for ChatGPT Free users and lighter voice apps.
About
GPT-Live-1 mini, launched July 8, 2026 alongside the full GPT-Live-1, is OpenAI's smaller full-duplex voice model. It powers ChatGPT Voice for Free-tier users while paid users get the full GPT-Live-1, and both replaced the older Advanced Voice Mode and its Instant/Medium/High intelligence levels.
Like its bigger sibling it listens and speaks simultaneously rather than taking turns, with web search, memory, and visual widgets across chatgpt.com and the iOS and Android apps. OpenAI simplified the daily usage limits by plan at launch and later let Voice draw on GPT-5.6 or GPT-6 Astra for harder questions when needed.
The mini is the entry point to OpenAI's Live voice stack: the same conversational architecture at a smaller scale, aimed at everyday voice chat rather than production agent workloads.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported: shares the GPT-Live architecture; no separate published benchmark scores at research time.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Release facts (July 8, 2026; OpenAI; serves ChatGPT Free users; full-duplex architecture; replaced Advanced Voice Mode and its intelligence tiers) corroborated across Unite.AI and OpenAI's release notes. Docked for: (1) no standalone API or separate pricing, so its standalone capabilities are thinly documented; (2) no independent benchmark scores for the mini specifically; (3) proprietary with no weights.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 2.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · Adoption 6: serves ChatGPT Free-tier Voice users
- · Maintenance 9: released 2026-07-08; inherits GPT-Live stack updates
- · Openness 2: hosted inside ChatGPT only, no weights
- · Manual 7: release facts (Jul 8 2026; Free-tier voice; full-duplex; replaced Advanced Voice Mode tiers) corroborated across Unite.AI and OpenAI release notes; docked for thin standalone documentation, no independent mini-specific benchmarks, closed weights