OpenAI: Whisper large-v3
Whisper large-v3 is a speech to text model from OpenAI released on Sep 1, 2023. It reads audio and writes text, with a 448 token context window.
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It costs $0.0162 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens.
Its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
6 providers serve it, including Scaleway, Groq and evroc. The lowest input price is $0.0023 per million tokens at evroc.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.0162 / $0 per 1M
- Context
- 448
- Max output
- 4K
- Released
- Sep 1, 2023
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- 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 | $0.0162 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0 / 1M tokens |
Whisper large-v3 providers
6 providers serve it, including Scaleway, Groq and evroc. The lowest input price is $0.0023 per million tokens at evroc. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scaleway | $0.003 | $0 | – | n/a | 8K |
| Groq | n/a | n/a | – | n/a | n/a |
| evroc | $0.0023 | $0.0023 | – | 448 | 4K |
| NEAR AI Cloud | $0.01 | $0.01 | – | 448 | 448 |
| Privatemode AI | $0.0162 | $0 | – | 448 | 4K |
| Regolo AI | n/a | n/a | – | 448 | 4K |
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?
$0.0162 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.
What is the context window of Whisper large-v3?
448 tokens of input, and it can write up to 4,096 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Whisper large-v3?
6 providers serve it, including Scaleway, Groq and evroc. The lowest input price is $0.0023 per million tokens at evroc. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
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.
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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