Whisper pricing.
Prices checked
Whisper costs $0.36 per hour of audio from OpenAI; the cheapest price is $0.36 per hour of audio at Azure AI Foundry, checked .
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OpenAI's own price
OpenAI
$0.36 per hour of audio
Every other price here is measured against it.
Cheapest price
Azure AI Foundry
$0.36 per hour of audio
same as OpenAI
The least you pay per hour of audio of the 3 providers selling it.
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Every provider selling Whisper
- 1
same as OpenAI
$0.36per hour of audio - 2$0.36per hour of audio
- 3
same as OpenAI
$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.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
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?
- Azure AI Foundry, at $0.36 per hour of audio, checked 1 Nov 2026.
- What does Whisper cost for one hour of audio?
- OpenAI charges $0.36 per hour of audio, and every other row here is measured against it. Nobody on this page goes below it.
- Is Whisper open weights?
- Yes. OpenAI publishes the weights, so anyone may host Whisper, which is why 3 providers sell it and why their prices differ.
- How current are these Whisper prices?
- They come from the public catalogs we read every 3 days; the readings on this page are from 1 Nov 2026.
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