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# Whisper (whisper-1 API)

OpenAI, Whisper family. Status: deprecated. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2023-03-01.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | `whisper-1` | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions (also /v1/audio/translations) | https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/whisper-1 |
| GitHub (open weights) |  |  | https://github.com/openai/whisper |
| Hugging Face |  |  | https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3 |

## Pricing

- Per minute: $0.006
- Unit as published: per minute of audio (USD)
- Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: audio
- Output: text
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: mit

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 110. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- After it from OpenAI: Whisper large-v3 / large-v3-turbo (open weights) (2023-11-06) https://postcutoff.com/m/whisper-large-v3/
- Weights are public under a permissive licence (MIT).

## What stands out

- 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. Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/whisper-1

## 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. API launch date (March 2023, with the ChatGPT API) is from memory, not re-verified today.

Sources:
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/whisper-1
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
- https://github.com/openai/whisper

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/whisper-1/