Whisper is listed with open source pricing.

Whisper

Open Source

Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition system by OpenAI trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual web audio data, offering near human-level robustness and accuracy in English and 99 other languages. It is available on GitHub and via the OpenAI API.

Category

Audio & Music

Subcategory

Speech-to-Text

Free Tier

Free open-source model

Paid Plans

Not available yet

API Cost

$0.006/min via OpenAI API

APICLI

Whisper Trust & Security Report

Certifications, AI-training posture, and security controls, with sourced proof.

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●SOC 2 Type II●SOC 3●ISO/IEC 27001:2022●ISO/IEC 27017:2015 (cloud security controls)●ISO/IEC 27018:2019 (PII in public clouds)●ISO/IEC 27701:2019 (privacy information management)●ISO/IEC 42001:2023 (AI management system)●GDPR posture (DPA with SCCs)●PCI DSS v4.0.1●CSA STAR●FedRAMP 20x●TX-RAMP

Verified against Whisper's own trust and security pages. See the full report for sourced proof →

Region

Self-hosted open-source Whisper: fully user-controlled, no data leaves user infrastructure. API/ChatGPT: processed on OpenAI's cloud infrastructure; OpenAI Ireland Ltd. is the contracting/processing entity for EEA and Swiss data with Standard Contractual Clauses governing onward transfers; no Whisper-specific regional data-residency option was found in public documentation.

Self-hostable

Yes

Transcribing audio files offline and locallyBuilding speech-to-text applications with APIConverting multilingual audio to textGenerating closed captions for video contentIntegrating speech recognition into custom workflows