NVIDIA: Whisper Large v3
Whisper Large v3 is a speech to text model from NVIDIA released on Sep 1, 2023. It reads audio and writes text.
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It costs $0 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens.
Its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0 / $0 per 1M
- Context
- n/a
- Max output
- 4K
- Released
- Sep 1, 2023
- Knowledge cutoff
- Sep 2023
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Whisper Large v3 pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0 / 1M tokens |
What Whisper Large v3 costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
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Whisper Large v3 questions
How much does the Whisper Large v3 API cost?
$0 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
Is Whisper Large v3 open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Whisper Large v3 released?
Sep 1, 2023, with training data up to Sep 2023.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Whisper Large v3?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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