Whisper pricing.
Prices checked
OpenAI publishes no price of its own for Whisper; the cheapest price is $0.36 per hour of audio at Deepgram, checked .
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OpenAI's own price
No price
OpenAI publishes the model and no price for it, so the spread across its hosts is the whole answer.
Cheapest price
Deepgram
$0.36 per hour of audio
The least you pay per hour of audio of the 2 providers selling it.
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Every provider selling Whisper
- 1
Deepgram
No maker price$0.36per hour of audio - 2$0.36per hour of audio
How we count
Every price is what one job costs, so two providers' numbers stand beside each other. One hour of recorded audio transcribed in batch, standard model. Prices are in US dollars.
- No maker price
- The lab publishes no price of its own, so there is nothing to measure the row against.
Similar speech models
Speech models from other labs priced for the same job, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Whisper's cheapest, $0.36 per hour of audio.
Frequently asked
- Who sells Whisper cheapest?
- Deepgram, at $0.36 per hour of audio, checked 21 Oct 2026.
- What does Whisper cost for one hour of audio?
- OpenAI publishes no price of its own for Whisper, so there is nothing to measure the other rows against. 2 providers sell it, from $0.36 per hour of audio, and the spread between them is the answer.
- Is Whisper open weights?
- Yes. OpenAI publishes the weights, so anyone may host Whisper, which is why 2 providers sell it and why their prices differ.
- How current are these Whisper prices?
- They come from the public catalogs we read every day; the readings on this page are from 21 Oct 2026.
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