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Whisper Base


Whisper Base is OpenAI logoOpenAI's speech to text model, starting at $N/A / 1M input and $N/A / 1M output. A compact, entry-level Whisper ASR model suited for lightweight multilingual speech recognition tasks with modest compute requirements.
Spec
Canonical IDopenai-whisper-base
TypeSpeech to Text
StatusActive
CreatorOpenAIOpenAI
Providers
Input ModalitiesAudio
Output ModalitiesText

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandard
Audio In
$ / 1M
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Deepgram
whisper-base
$0.000100

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Whisper 34KAvailable
Whisper 3 Large$0.000$0.000Available
Whisper 3 Large Turbo$0.000$0.000Available
Whisper 3 Turbo4KAvailable
Whisper 2 LargeAvailable
Whisper$0.000$0.000Available
Whisper Base$0.000$0.000Current
Whisper$0.000$0.000Available
Whisper Large$0.000$0.000Available
Whisper Medium$0.000$0.000Available
Whisper Small$0.000$0.000Available

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