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Whisper Large v3 pricing
API list price by OpenAI · checked Oct 23, 2026
$0.004per minute
Price sheet
| Price | $0.004 | per minute |
/ large-v3
Cheaper for the same workvs Whisper Large v3
| MAI Transcribe 2 | -61% | score ×5.1 | $0.002 |
| Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 | -5% | score ×4.8 | $0.004 |
| Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 | -17% | score ×4.6 | $0.004 |
| Scribe v2 | -13% | score ×4.6 | $0.004 |
| Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 | -61% | score ×4.4 | $0.002 |
Pricing questions
How much does Whisper Large v3 cost?›
$0.004 per minute. / large-v3
Is Whisper Large v3 free to use?›
There is no free API tier, but the weights are open: you can run it on your own hardware for the cost of compute.
What is a cheaper alternative to Whisper Large v3?›
MAI Transcribe 2 costs -61% per task with a score ×5.1 on AA Speech to text · Recorded audio word error rate.