OpenAI

OpenAI Whisper

Highly accurate and versatile speech-to-text

Robust transcriptionMultilingual understandingNoise robustnessOpen-source availability
Today's score
96.0
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Where it ranks today

Best for / Not great for

Best for
  • Meeting transcription
  • Transcription of noisy audio
  • Subtitle generation
  • Command recognition
Not great for
  • Generating speech (TTS)
  • Music generation
  • Real-time, low-latency transcription in some deployments

Why it ranks here

Whisper continues to set the benchmark for ASR accuracy, handling diverse accents and noisy environments exceptionally well. Its open-source nature fosters wide adoption and integration, making it a reliable choice for transcription tasks.

30-day trend

Score breakdown

Search trends95
Benchmarks97
Developer buzz97
News mentions95

Pricing

API: $0.00 in · $0.00 out per 1M tokens · Consumer: $0.00/mo

Pricing plans

Popular
Open Source
Full control and flexibility
Free
  • Self-hosting
  • Model fine-tuning
  • Community support
  • Unlimited usage
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API Access (OpenAI)
Managed, scalable transcription
$0.01/mo
  • Pay-as-you-go
  • High availability
  • Multiple model sizes
  • Fast processing
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Compare with another modelHow is this score calculated? →Snapshot 2026-05-17