Whisper (whisper-1 API)
Speech and audio
whisper-1
$0.006 per minute
Whisper large-v3 / large-v3-turbo (open weights)
Model idopenai/whisper-large-v3
PricePrice not published
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
107newer 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
- Before it from OpenAI
- Whisper (whisper-1 API)1 Mar 2023
- After it from OpenAI
- GPT-4o Transcribe / Mini Transcribe / Transcribe Diarize20 Mar 2025
- Weights
- Weights are public under a permissive licence (MIT).
How to call it
5 ways to use Whisper large-v3 / large-v3-turbo (open weights), with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | openai/whisper-large-v3 |
huggingface.co | |
| Hugging Face | openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo |
huggingface.co | |
| GitHub | github.com | ||
| Groq | whisper-large-v3-turbo |
console.groq.com | |
| Deepgram (hosted) | whisper-large |
developers.deepgram.com |
Pricing
Price not published.
No price source linked. Checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Audio
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- Yes
- Licence
- MIT
- Released
- 6 November 2023
- Status
- Legacy
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Robust multilingual ASR + translation to English
99 languages; timestamps; zero-shot speech translation into English; the de facto open ASR baseline.
Turbo: 4-layer decoder
large-v3-turbo (Oct 2024) prunes the decoder from 32 to 4 layers (809M vs 1.55B params) for much faster decoding with minor quality loss; not trained for translation.
Notes
Status legacy: still widely deployed, but surpassed on the Open ASR Leaderboard by NVIDIA Canary/Parakeet, and OpenAI’s API now points to gpt-transcribe (whisper-1 API shutdown 2027-02-26). Known to hallucinate text on silence/noise. Dates from OpenAI releases (large-v3 at DevDay 2023-11-06; turbo 2024-10-01), not re-checked today.
Sources: https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo , https://github.com/openai/whisper