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OpenAI: Whisper

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Whisper is a speech to text model from OpenAI released on Sep 21, 2022. It reads audio and writes text.

Modalities
In / out price
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Context
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Max output
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Released
Sep 21, 2022
Knowledge cutoff
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  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Supported request parameters

What you can set when you call Whisper through an OpenAI compatible API.

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Whisper questions

Is Whisper open source?

No. OpenAI serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.

When was Whisper released?

Sep 21, 2022.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.

Building on Whisper?

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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