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Higgs Realtime

Cost-efficient, real-timespeech-to-speech model

Trained across multiple stages on 10M+ hours of data, Higgs Realtime follows the conversation, adapts as the task changes, and finishes the workflow you started.

  • Learn more#1on tool-call & interruption benchmarks
  • Learn more~700msspeech-in to speech-out latency
  • Learn more100+languages, one voice across all of them
  • Learn more$0.0023/min (audio input)$0.014/min (audio output)

Plan a trip with Higgs Realtime

It holds the whole itinerary in mind, takes changes mid-sentence, and books while you are still talking.

Tech support with Higgs Realtime

It reads the account, runs the checks and resolves the issue on the call, instead of routing you onward.

Interrupt it.It recovers.

speakingbarge-inlisteningrecovered
AI assistantFlight 823 departs at 9:40 tomorrow morning, arriving at—
caller wait, actually make it the evening flight.
AI assistantSure, the 7:15 pm departure instead. Same aisle seat, still under your fare cap.
IHBench · recovery quality
Higgs Realtime
71.2
gpt-realtime-1.5
65.5
gpt-realtime-2
62.4
gemini-3.1-flash-live
61.1

Top of the IHBench table among all audio-native models, on a 0-100 scale

It doesn't just talk.It gets things done.

current stage

intentoptionsselectionbooked
callerBook the evening one, aisle seat if it doesn't cost more.
search_flights({ dest: "TYO", date: "tomorrow", window: "evening" })seat_map({ flight: "HR-823" })book_ticket({ flight: "HR-823", seat: "12C" })
HR-823 · 19:15nonstop · 11h 40m

evening departure · aisle seats available

HR-991 · 21:401 stop · 14h 05m

late departure · middle seats only

11
1212C
13

12C · aisle · fare unchanged

HR-823 · 19:15 · seat 12C

booked · e-ticket sent

AI assistantDone. HR-823 at 7:15 pm, seat 12C. Confirmation is in your inbox.
ComplexFuncBench · Audio
Higgs Realtime
83.4
gpt-realtime-2
77.7
gpt-realtime-1.5
77.3
grok-voice-think-fast-1.0
65.1
gemini-3.1-flash-live
56.6

Answers at the speed of conversation.

callerhiggs
~0 ms to first audio
caller barges in, it yields in ~125 ms

100+ languages. One voice.

  • English
  • Chinese
  • Spanish
  • Hindi
  • Arabic
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Italian
  • Persian
  • Turkish
  • Vietnamese
  • Thai
  • Indonesian
  • Dutch
  • Polish
  • Ukrainian
  • Swedish
  • Greek
  • Bengali
  • Urdu
  • Malay
  • Filipino
  • Czech
  • Romanian
  • + 70 more

Priced for production.

Per-minute audio rates, metered on tokens underneath. No platform fee, no per-seat pricing.

audio input

$0.0023/ min

audio output

$0.014/ min
Billing eventsPrice
Input tokens
$0.75 / 1M tokens
Cached input tokens
$0.25 / 1M tokens
Output tokens
$4.50 / 1M tokens
Transcription input
$0.0025 / min

* Estimated rates reflect common usage. Actual cost is calculated from tokens consumed.

* Usage estimates exclude applicable taxes.

Compatible with the OpenAI Realtime API.

Same wire protocol, same events, same shapes. Keep your OpenAI code: change a few lines and you're on Higgs.

  • Realtime sessions

    WebSocket, audio or text in, audio or text out.

  • Barge-in handled

    Server-side voice-activity detection and interruption.

  • Tools built in

    A search tool, plus your own function definitions.

  • 100+ languages

    One voice, no per-language setup.

# The official OpenAI SDK — pointed at Higgs
client = AsyncOpenAI(
- api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"],
+ api_key=os.environ["BOSON_API_KEY"],
+ base_url="https://api.boson.ai/v1",
)
-async with client.realtime.connect(model="gpt-realtime-2") as conn:
+async with client.realtime.connect(model="higgs-realtime") as conn:
await conn.session.update(session={
+ "model": "higgs-realtime", # required; the connect() arg is SDK-only
"output_modalities": ["audio"],
"audio": {
"input": {"turn_detection": {"type": "server_vad"}},
"output": {"voice": "default"},
},
})
# stream mic audio in; server VAD handles turn-taking
async for chunk in microphone():
await conn.input_audio_buffer.append(
audio=base64.b64encode(chunk).decode(),
)
# play assistant audio as it streams back
async for event in conn:
if event.type == "response.output_audio.delta":
speaker.play(event.delta)

Build something that talks back.

Higgs Realtime is available now via API. Read the API docs to get started, or try it in the playground.