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whisper

Provided by OpenAI
Pay-as-you-go

OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition family supports multilingual transcription, speech translation, and language identification.

Model specs

Model ID
whisper
Context length
–
Max output
–
I/O modalities
Released
2022-09

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API endpoints

One MixRoute gateway, OpenAI-compatible

  • OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions POST

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Pricing

Flat rate, unit: /1M Tokens

Input

$6.0000 /1M Tokens

Completion

$6.0000 /1M Tokens

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Selection summary

Quickly judge whether it fits your workload

What is this model good for?

OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition family supports multilingual transcription

OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition family supports multilingual transcription, speech translation, and language identification.

What should you check before using it?

Confirm audio formats, sample rates, and pricing

Whisper supports the OpenAI SDK. Released 2022-09-21. The input price is $6.0000 per 1M tokens. Test a representative workload before production.

Why use it through MixRoute?

Swap the base URL, keep the Whisper client

MixRoute serves Whisper on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint /v1/chat/completions; point your existing client at https://api.mixroute.ai/v1 with the model ID whisper and re-run your integration tests.

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Capabilities & compatibility

Unconfirmed capabilities stay "Unknown," no guesses

Available:

OpenAI SDK

Call Whisper through MixRoute's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

EX Change base_url to https://api.mixroute.ai/v1; everything else follows the OpenAI style.

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Token cost estimator

Live estimate from this page's pricing, not an actual bill

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FAQ

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.

One endpoint, a testable decision

Test this model and alternate routes with the same request format

Start from a real workload, then let quality, total cost, and failure conditions decide whether to send production traffic.