Whisper large-v3 / large-v3-turbo (open weights)
Speech and audio
openai/whisper-large-v3
Price not published
Whisper (whisper-1 API)
Model idwhisper-1
Price$0.006 per minute
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
110newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
- Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- After it from OpenAI
- Whisper large-v3 / large-v3-turbo (open weights)6 Nov 2023
- Weights
- Weights are public under a permissive licence (MIT).
How to call it
3 ways to use Whisper (whisper-1 API), with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | whisper-1 |
https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions (also /v1/audio/translations) |
developers.openai.com |
| GitHub (open weights) | github.com | ||
| Hugging Face | huggingface.co |
Pricing
| Per minute | $0.006 |
|---|
As published: “per minute of audio (USD)”.
Source: developers.openai.com, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Audio
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- Yes
- Licence
- MIT
- Released
- 1 March 2023
- Status
- Deprecated
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Multilingual speech recognition, translation and language ID
General-purpose ASR trained on a large diverse audio dataset; transcribes many languages and translates speech into English.
Notes
API model deprecated 2026-08-26, shutdown 2027-02-26; replacements gpt-transcribe / gpt-live-transcribe. The open-source Whisper checkpoints (MIT, first released Sept 2022) remain downloadable and widely self-hosted; the API’s whisper-1 has no snapshot versions.
Sources:
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/whisper-1
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
- https://github.com/openai/whisper
Not yet checked against an official source: API launch date (March 2023, with the ChatGPT API) is from memory, not re-verified today.