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OpenAI: Whisper 1

Source description (English)

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. Accepts formats...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
Not provided
Maximum output
Not provided
Architecture
audio->transcription
Tokenizer
GPT
Knowledge cutoff
Not provided
Moderated
Yes
OPENROUTER

Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Audio seconds
$0.0001
per second
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -F 'model=openai/whisper-1' \
  -F 'file=@audio.wav'
Capabilities

Input → Output

Input
audio
Output
transcription
API

Supported API parameters

Available providers

1 Provider

Checked: September 19, 2026

Live providers on OpenRouter

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OpenRouter

OpenAI

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Context
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Maximum output
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