Whisper

Name: Whisper
Author: OpenAI

Released

2023-03-01

Last refreshed

2026-06-07

Status

Researched 45d ago

ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalVisionAudio

Whisper is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating vision
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Do not use it for

Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Specifications

Family: OpenAI Transcribe
Released: 2023-03-01
Architecture: Audio / Speech
Specialization: speech-recognition
Openness: Proprietary
License: ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights: Not released
Code: Unknown
Training: Pretrained

Created by

OpenAI

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States

Founded 2015

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

Input / 1M

Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API

Providers(1)

OpenAI API

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Website

About

Whisper 1 is OpenAI's general-purpose speech recognition API model, based on Whisper large-v2, released March 2023. Supports multilingual transcription across 50+ languages, speech translation into English, and language identification. Priced at $0.006/min of audio (flat per-minute rate). Exposed via /v1/audio/transcriptions and /v1/audio/translations. For new applications, gpt-4o-transcribe offers better accuracy. API ID: whisper-1.

Whisper is a proprietary model in the OpenAI Transcribe family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input and audio. This page tracks provider routes through OpenAI API. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Whisper yet.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

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