Whisper (whisper-1 API)
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.
- Input
- audio
- Output
- text
- License
- mit
- Pricing
- per minute: $0.006 (per minute of audio (USD)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | whisper-1 | https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions (also /v1/audio/translations) | docs |
| GitHub (open weights) | — | github.com/openai/whisper | — |
| Hugging Face | — | huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3 | — |
Notable capabilities (1)
- 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
Sources:
Other OpenAI models
GPT-6.1 Sol · GPT-6 Luna · GPT-6 Sol · GPT Image 2.5 Flare · GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst · GPT-6 Astra · GPT-Live-Transcribe · GPT-Transcribe · GPT-5.6 Terra · GPT-Live 1 · GPT-Realtime-2.1 · GPT-Realtime-2 · GPT-Realtime-Translate · GPT-Rosalind · GPT-Audio-1.5 (and gpt-audio / gpt-audio-mini) · GPT-5.3-Codex · gpt-oss-120b · gpt-oss-20b · GPT-4o mini TTS · text-embedding-3-large · text-embedding-3-small · GPT-5.6 Luna · GPT-5.6 Sol · GPT-Realtime-Whisper · GPT-5.5 Pro · GPT-5.5 · GPT Image 2 · GPT-5.4 · GPT-Realtime-1.5 · GPT-4.1 · GPT-4o · TTS-1 / TTS-1 HD · Whisper large-v3 / large-v3-turbo (open weights) · GPT-Realtime and GPT-Realtime mini · o3 · GPT-4o Transcribe / Mini Transcribe / Transcribe Diarize · Sora 2