Whisper
legacyOpenAI · Mid · Speech to text
OpenAI's open-weight speech recognition model, served on the API as whisper-1.
Pricing
$0.006 /min
Billed per minute (metered per second). Long-published $0.006/min rate; no longer on the current developer pricing page, superseded by the gpt-4o-transcribe family (M confidence).
Source: https://openai.com/api/pricing, as of Jul 6, 2026
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