What is Whisper Large API?
Whisper: Multilingual speech recognition model, robust, versatile, open-source.
Technical Specifications
- Supported inputs: Audio
- Output: Text
Performance Benchmarks
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Whisper Large API Pricing
- Pricing on request
Where to Use Whisper Large
Transcription
Convert calls, meetings, and media into accurate, searchable text.
Captioning and indexing
Generate subtitles and make audio archives searchable.
Measured on the AI/ML API gateway across live traffic. Figures are medians unless stated. Last updated 2026-10-12.
import requests, time headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY} job = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/stt/create", headers=headers, json={ "model": "deepgram/whisper-large", "url": "https://example.com/audio.mp3" }, ).json() gid = job["generation_id"] while True: res = requests.get(f"https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/stt/{gid}", headers=headers).json() if res.get("status") in ("completed", "error", "failed"): break time.sleep(3) print(res)
const headers = { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }; const job = await (await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/stt/create", { method: "POST", headers, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "deepgram/whisper-large", "url": "https://example.com/audio.mp3" }), })).json(); let res; do { await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 3000)); res = await (await fetch(`https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/stt/${job.generation_id}`, { headers })).json(); } while (!["completed", "error", "failed"].includes(res.status)); console.log(res);
# submit the job — the response contains "generation_id" curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/stt/create \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"deepgram/whisper-large","url":"https://example.com/audio.mp3"}' # then poll for the result until it is ready curl "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/stt/{generation_id}" -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY"
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
| Type | Price |
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| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
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Whisper This page | Transcription | |||
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| Speech synthesis |
Whisper takes audio as input and returns text.
Whisper became available on September 21, 2022.
Whisper is priced at output $0.000104 / sec.
Whisper was built by OpenAI.
Send a request to v1/stt with deepgram/whisper-large as the model id.
Yes. Whisper is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.
