Whisper
A widely deployed multilingual transcription and translation model.
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Whisper vs Cartesia
Whisper (OpenAI) and Cartesia (Cartesia) both sit in Audio. Whisper is the cheaper entry point at Pricing not specified in the document. Whisper shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (2 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Whisper OpenAI | Cartesia Cartesia |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Audio | Audio |
| Version | gpt-transcribe | Sonic 3 |
| Entry cost | Pricing not specified in the document | Free tier · from $5/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Open Source Model free | — |
| Model stack | gpt-transcribe · Whisper · Whisper large-v3 · whisper-1 | Sonic 3 |
| Context window | 30 second windows | — |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 2 | 0 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| 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 | Sub-100ms TTS, Voice cloning, Realtime API |
Cartesia
Ultra-low-latency voice models built on state space models.
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