Fact · Transcription
0.006US dollars per minute
OpenAI's whisper-1 model page gives its transcription cost as $0.006 per minute.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“Pricing Use case / 1M tokens Transcription Cost / minute $0.006 Modalities Text Output only”
Whisper: OpenAI API model page, OpenAI, 2026, Model page, Pricing.
Open the original- What it measures
- The model page lists one per-minute cost for whisper-1, a general-purpose speech recognition model, under Transcription rather than live transcription.
- What it does not show
- Read on 2026-10-19. The page gives no volume tiers, and OpenAI's pricing page does not list whisper-1 in its transcription table, so the figure rests on the model page alone.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as OpenAI whisper-1: 0.36 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Product
- whisper-1
- Mode
- Batch (recorded audio)
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- $0.006 per minute is $0.36 per hour.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 22 published figures for “Batch (recorded audio)” have a median of 0.21 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0.04 to 6.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 34 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 15 distinct sources.