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Whisper

OpenAI · #15 most active of 15 in Audio

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A widely deployed multilingual transcription and translation model.

Current version

large-v3

Entry cost

Free weights, API $0.006/min

Changes / 30d

0

Capabilities

  • 99 languages
  • Translation to English
  • Word timestamps
  • Open weights
  • Robust to noise

Pricing

  • Self-hosted

    Free

  • OpenAI API

    $0.006 per minute

    Free

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Whisper large-v3

    OpenAI

    disclosed

Context window

30 second windows

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • PyTorch
  • whisper.cpp
  • Transformers

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

  • Whisper large-v3OpenAI · 1 product

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

  • GitHub stars

    75k

    stars

    Public registry

    Developer-side proxy only.

    as of Jun 2025·GitHub repository ·disclosed

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Change history

  • model

    large-v3-turbo variant published for faster inference

    large-v3large-v3, large-v3-turbo

    source