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What is Whisper?
An automatic speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio data that transcribes and translates speech with high accuracy. It is designed to handle diverse accents, background noise, and technical language across multiple languages with transcription in original languages or translation to English.
Whisper pricing
We don't have Whisper's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Whisper does
The capabilities that matter for transcription, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- AI automated speech recognition asr
- ✓
- Human in loop expert review available
- -
- Speaker diarization and voice separation
- -
- Interactive text to audio playback editor
- -
- Custom vocabulary and industry dictionary
- -
- Automated language translation from transcript
- ✓
- Srt vtt subtitle export formatting
- -
- Zoom google meet teams live captioning
- -
- Adobe premiere final cut xml export
- -
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- ISO 27001
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Whisper FAQ
Common questions about Whisper, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Whisper?
An automatic speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio data that transcribes and translates speech with high accuracy. It is designed to handle diverse accents, background noise, and technical language across multiple languages with transcription in original languages or translation to English. It is indexed under Transcription.
Is Whisper free to use?
Whisper is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Is Whisper open source?
Yes. Whisper is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Whisper alternatives
Other transcription we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- SonixSpeech-to-text conversion platform that automatically generates searchable transcripts in 54+ languages with speaker identificationmedium · 74%
- Happy ScribeMultilingual transcription and meeting documentation AImedium · 74%
- RevInvestigative platform combining AI transcription and evidence analysis for legal professionalshigh · 75%
- AmberscriptA European platform combining automated speech-to-text with professional editors for accurate transcription and subtitles.medium · 56%
- ScribieProfessional transcription powered by verified human experts at competitive per-minute rateslow · 46%
- 3Play Mediamedium · 56%
Compare Whisper
Side by side against other transcription, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Whisper, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release cadence | 96 | 0.05 | 5.0 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 55 | 0.06 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 0.07 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Stars | 95 | 0.03 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Security score | 43 | 0.04 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 10 | 0.09 | 0.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 3 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 72% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Ai automated speech recognition asr, Automated language translation from transcript | mediumsource · 2026-09-14 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Python | highsource · 2026-10-14 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-10-14 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-20 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
Security
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