Whisper
General-purpose speech recognition model.
Specs
- Context
- —
- Max output
- —
- Input price
- $0.006/ minute
- Output price
- —
- Released
- —
Context
- Not published
Pricing · USD / minute
- Input
- $0.006
- Output
- —
- Cache read
- —
- Cache write
- —
Modalities
- Input
- Audio
- Output
- Text
API
- API types
Reasoning
- Not published
Info
- Status
- Deprecated
- Released
- —
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
Features
- Not published
How to call
1 provider
openaimodel = whisper-1
audio
POSThttps://api.openai.com/v1/audio/transcriptions
JSON
Standard format
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"id": "whisper-1",
"object": "model",
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"owned_by": "openai",
"name": "Whisper",
"api": {
"types": [
"audio"
]
},
"limits": {
"context": null,
"input": null,
"output": null
},
"modalities": {
"input": [
"audio"
],
"output": [
"text"
]
},
"reasoning": {
"supported": null,
"efforts": []
},
"pricing": {
"currency": "USD",
"unit": "minute",
"input": 0.006,
"output": null,
"cache_read": null,
"cache_write": null
},
"features": [],
"info": {
"status": "deprecated",
"release_date": null,
"knowledge_cutoff": null,
"description": "General-purpose speech recognition model.",
"docs": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/whisper-1",
"verified_at": "2026-10-11"
}
}Official sources
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