Whisper Base
Whisper Base is available now for vision with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
- Family
- OpenAI Whisper
- Released
- 2022-12-06
- Parameters
- 74M
- Architecture
- Audio / Speech
- Specialization
- speech-recognition
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
OpenAI's Whisper base-size model for general-purpose automatic speech recognition. Multilingual transcription with good accuracy.
Whisper Base is an open-source model in the OpenAI Whisper family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input and audio. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Whisper Base yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
whisper-baseFrequently asked questions
When was Whisper Base released?
Whisper Base was released on 2022-12-06.
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.