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OpenAI: Whisper 1

openai/whisper-1

Released Apr 27, 2026$0.006 per minute

Whisper is OpenAI's open-source automatic speech recognition model, available via API as whisper-1. It supports transcription and translation across 50+ languages from audio files up to 25 MB. Accepts formats including mp3, mp4, wav, and webm. Priced per minute of audio duration, billed to the nearest second.

Performance for Whisper 1

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Effective Pricing for Whisper 1

Actual cost per million tokens across providers over the past hour

Apps using Whisper 1

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Recent activity on Whisper 1

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Audio Inputs
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Audio inputs count all speech or sound files processed by the model. Some requests may process multiple inputs.

Uptime stats for Whisper 1

Uptime stats for Whisper 1 across all providers

Providers for Whisper 1

OpenRouter routes requests to the best providers that are able to handle your prompt size and parameters, with fallbacks to maximize uptime.

Sample code and API for Whisper 1

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter provides a speech-to-text API that transcribes audio into text. Send base64-encoded audio with a model, and receive the transcribed text in JSON.

The generation ID is returned in the X-Generation-Id response header for tracking.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.