Mureka
Kunlun TechChina
7
Music generation with stem export and a public API.
- Version
- Mureka AI MV Director
- Cost
- Free tier · from $8/mo
- Model
- Mureka V8
Whisper
OpenAI · #6 most active of 15 in Audio
A widely deployed multilingual transcription and translation model.
67
Trust score · Mixed
3 data points checked · 2026-09-11
Current version
gpt-transcribe
Entry cost
Pricing not specified in the document
Changes / 30d
2
The short answers · verified September 14, 2026
- What is the latest version of Whisper?
- The current shipped version of Whisper is gpt-transcribe, as of September 14, 2026.
- How much does Whisper cost?
- Whisper has no published flat entry price. Pricing not specified in the document
- What AI model does Whisper use?
- Whisper runs primarily on gpt-transcribe.
Source: OpenAI — openai.com · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Capabilities
- 99 languages
- Translation to English
- Word timestamps
- Open weights
- Robust to noise
- File transcription
- Language detection
- Support for mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, and webm formats
- Up to 25 MB file uploads
- Custom context via prompts, keywords, and languages
- file transcription
- realtime transcription
- translation
- word timestamps
- speaker labels
- subtitle formats
- Realtime transcription
- Speech generation
- speech-to-text
- Subtitle formats
- Translation into English
- Speaker labels
- Audio transcription
- Audio translation
- Support for mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, webm
- transcription
- Speech-to-text
- Translation
- speech translation
- speech recognition
- multilingual transcription
- zero-shot performance
- timestamps
- Speech to text
- Subtitles
- Translations
- audio transcription
- speech to text
- file-transcription
- audio translation
- translation into English
- Transcription
- Audio to text
Pricing
Open Source Model
Model weights and code available for free download
Free
Entry price over time
Geek mode
Models under the hood
- disclosed
gpt-transcribe
OpenAI
- disclosed
Whisper
OpenAI
- disclosed
Whisper large-v3
OpenAI
- inferred
whisper-1
OpenAI
Context window
30 second windows
Public API
yes
Multi-model routing
yes
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.
- WhisperOpenAI · 3 products
- Whisper large-v3+1 aliasOpenAI · 2 products
- gpt-transcribeOpenAI · 1 product
- whisper-1OpenAI · 1 product
green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.
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.
- Public registry
GitHub stars
106k
stars
as of Aug 2026·GitHub repository ·disclosed
- Public registry
GitHub stars
75k
stars
Developer-side proxy only.
as of Jun 2025·GitHub repository ·disclosed
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Change history
- capability
- capability
- capability
- capability
- capability
- capability
New capabilities: audio transcription, speech to text
36 tracked38 tracked · +audio transcription, speech to text
source - version
- capability
New capabilities: Speech to text, Subtitles, Translations
33 tracked36 tracked · +Speech to text, Subtitles, Translations
source - capability
- capability
New capabilities: Speech-to-text, Translation
26 tracked28 tracked · +Speech-to-text, Translation
source - model
Whisper added Whisper to its model stack
Whisper large-v3, gpt-transcribe, whisper-1Whisper, Whisper large-v3, gpt-transcribe, whisper-1
source - capability
- capability
New capabilities: Audio transcription, Audio translation, Support for mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, webm
22 tracked25 tracked · +Audio transcription, Audio translation, Support for mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, webm
source - capability
- model
Whisper added whisper-1 to its model stack
Whisper large-v3, gpt-transcribeWhisper large-v3, gpt-transcribe, whisper-1
source - capability
- capability
- capability
- version
- capability
- model
Whisper added gpt-transcribe to its model stack
Whisper large-v3Whisper large-v3, gpt-transcribe
source - capability
New capabilities: File transcription, Language detection, Support for mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, and webm formats
55
source - model
- version
- capability
New capabilities: speech recognition, multilingual transcription, zero-shot performance
29 tracked33 tracked · +speech recognition, multilingual transcription, zero-shot performance, timestamps
source
Whisper compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Audio.
How to cite this page
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/whisper
APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Whisper — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/whisper
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-whisper,
author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {Whisper — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/whisper}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}