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title: AI Gateway launches Realtime WebSockets API
description: AI Gateway now supports end-to-end, client-to-provider WebSockets
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## AI Gateway launches Realtime WebSockets API

Mar 21, 2025 

[ AI Gateway ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/) 

We are excited to announce that [AI Gateway](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/) now supports real-time AI interactions with the new [Realtime WebSockets API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/usage/websockets-api/realtime-api/).

This new capability allows developers to establish persistent, low-latency connections between their applications and AI models, enabling natural, real-time conversational AI experiences, including speech-to-speech interactions.

The Realtime WebSockets API works with the [OpenAI Realtime API ↗](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime#connect-with-websockets), [Google Gemini Live API ↗](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/multimodal-live), and supports real-time text and speech interactions with models from [Cartesia ↗](https://docs.cartesia.ai/api-reference/tts/tts), and [ElevenLabs ↗](https://elevenlabs.io/docs/conversational-ai/api-reference/conversational-ai/websocket).

Here's how you can connect AI Gateway to [OpenAI's Realtime API ↗](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime#connect-with-websockets) using WebSockets:

OpenAI Realtime API example

```
import WebSocket from "ws";
const url =  "wss://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/<account_id>/<gateway>/openai?model=gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-12-17";const ws = new WebSocket(url, {  headers: {    "cf-aig-authorization": process.env.CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY,    Authorization: "Bearer " + process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,    "OpenAI-Beta": "realtime=v1",  },});
ws.on("open", () => console.log("Connected to server."));ws.on("message", (message) => console.log(JSON.parse(message.toString())));
ws.send(  JSON.stringify({    type: "response.create",    response: { modalities: ["text"], instructions: "Tell me a joke" },  }),);
```

Get started by checking out the [Realtime WebSockets API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway/usage/websockets-api/realtime-api/) documentation.

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