Whisper pricing.
prices as of · 3 providers · 3 prices · prices are per hour of audioOne hour of recorded audio transcribed in batch, standard model. Prices are in US dollars.
OpenAI trained Whisper, and 3 providers sell it. Every price below is what one job costs, so two providers' numbers can stand beside each other.
Whisper costs $0.36 per hour of audio from OpenAI; the cheapest price anyone charges for it is $0.36 per hour of audio at Azure AI Foundry, read 17 Sept 2026.
OpenAI list price
$0.36per hour of audio
The price every row below is measured against.
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Cheapest price we can compare
$0.36per hour of audio
0% under list
Azure AI Foundryread
Every provider selling Whisper
Cheapest first inside each block. The share beside a price is that row against OpenAI's.
The maker's list price
1 priceWhat the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.
OpenAIThe price OpenAI charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
$0.36per hour of audio
1.00×of list price
The rest of the prices
2 pricesEither the same price the lab charges, or a model whose lab publishes no price at all, which is most of this market.
$0.36per hour of audio
1.00×of list price
$0.36per hour of audio
1.00×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells Whisper cheapest?
- Azure AI Foundry, at $0.36 per hour of audio, read on 17 Sept 2026. The same price OpenAI charges.
- What does Whisper cost for one hour of audio?
- OpenAI charges $0.36 per hour of audio, and that is the price every other row here is measured against. 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 day, last refreshed 17 Sept 2026, and each row carries the day it was read.