Speech transcription model for accurate audio-to-text and captioning workflows
Whisper by openai is offered by 3 providers on this page. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
The context window is 448,000 tokens, with an output limit of 4,096 tokens. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | Free | — | — | 448,000 | 4,096 | ||
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | — | — | — | — | — | — | hostTable.undisclosed |
| Groq whisper-large-v3 | Cloud | — | — | — | — | — | — | hostTable.undisclosed |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
This model is $0 across all listed channels (Merge Gateway).
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-13). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.