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Whisper-Ultra

The gold standard for transcription accuracy

multilingual robustnesslow word error ratenoise resilience
Today's score
93.0
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Where it ranks today

Best for / Not great for

Best for
  • meeting transcription
  • video captioning
  • medical dictation
Not great for
  • real-time stream processing on low-power devices
  • speaker diarization without plugins

Why it ranks here

As the base for countless applications, Whisper remains the essential layer for any speech-to-text pipeline due to its sheer reliability.

30-day trend

Score breakdown

Search trends92
Benchmarks96
Developer buzz94
News mentions90

Pricing

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

Pricing plans

Open Source
Free community version
Free
  • full codebase
  • self-hostable
  • no commercial restrictions
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Popular
Managed API
Enterprise ready
$10 /usage
  • serverless deployment
  • auto-scaling
  • SOC2 compliance
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Compare with another modelHow is this score calculated? →Snapshot 2026-11-05