OpenAI: Whisper 1
openai/whisper-1
Whisper is OpenAI's open-source automatic speech recognition model, available via API as `whisper-1`. It supports transcription and translation across 50+ languages from audio files up to 25 MB. Accepts formats...
Price
No published list price.
Providers
Each row is one seller. Prices are the published rate from that source. A dash means that source did not publish the amount. Sorted by a 3:1 blend of input and output.
| Provider | Tag | Quant | Input | Output | Context | Uptime | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | openai | — | $100/1M | $0/1M | — | 100% | Live | openrouter-endpoints |
Monthly bill
Token models use the token counts. Image, video, and audio models use units times the flat rate.
No published price at list price for this workload
Every rate
| Unit | Input | Output | Flat | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— | official |
Price history
input or flat output
input or flat output
Daily snapshots
| UTC date | Unit | Input | Output | Flat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-15 | token | $6,000 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-16 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-16 | token | $6,000 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-17 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-17 | token | $6,000 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-18 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-18 | token | $6,000 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-19 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-19 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-20 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-20 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-21 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-21 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-22 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-22 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-23 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-23 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-24 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-24 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-25 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-25 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-26 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-26 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-27 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-27 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-28 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-28 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-29 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-29 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-09-30 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-09-30 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-01 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-10-01 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-02 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-10-02 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-03 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-10-03 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-04 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-10-04 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-05 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-10-05 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-06 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-10-06 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-07 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-10-07 | token | $100 | $0 | Not published— |
| 2026-10-08 | minute_audio | Not published— | Not published— | $0.006 |
| 2026-10-08 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-09 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-10 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-11 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-12 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-13 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-14 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-15 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-16 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-17 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-18 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-19 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-20 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-21 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-22 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-23 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-24 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-25 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-26 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-27 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-28 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-29 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
| 2026-10-30 | token | Not published— | Not published— | Not published— |
Alternatives
- Fish Audio: S2.1 Pro Free (free)$0/1M · Compare
- HeyGen: HeyGen Voice Turbo (free)$0/1M · Compare
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)$0/1M · Compare
- Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)$0/1M · Compare
- Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)$0/1M · Compare
- nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-ASR-Streaming-Multilingual-0.6b$0.000003/second audio · Compare
Call this model
OpenRouter id openai/whisper-1. InferenceList does not send the request.
curl
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"openai/whisper-1","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
JavaScript
await fetch("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: "Bearer " + process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
model: "openai/whisper-1",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
}),
});
Python
import os, json, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions",
data=json.dumps({"model": "openai/whisper-1", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json"},
)
print(urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode())