OpenAI

Whisper 1

Audio input
Released
3y ago
Transcription / hour
$0.36

Sources:OpenRouter

Audio pricing is shown only when an audio billing unit is published. Transcription and speech rates are converted to per hour and per 1M characters.

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1 as of 2026-09-22. Results are only shown for exact model versions in the official dataset. Official leaderboard.

No benchmark results have been matched to this model yet.

Specifications

Developer
OpenAI
Model family
Whisper
Type
Audio model
Predecessor
—
Successor
—
Released
March 1, 2023
Model ID
openai/whisper-1
Openness
Open weights
License
Apache-2.0
Parameters
—
Input modalities
audio
Output modalities
transcription
Modality
audio->transcription
Hugging Face
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Source freshness
Endpoints synced Oct 15, 2026, 8:17 AM UTC

Infrastructure

Provider availability

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ProviderEndpointPricing (published units)Uptime 1dData handling
OpenAIopenai$0.36 / hour100.00%
ZDR: No

Training: Unknown

Prompt logging: Unknown

Retention: Unknown

Checked 2026-10-15

Provider data:OpenRouter

Text provenance

EU · product-scoped

OpenAI textGrain watermarking

In the EU, ChatGPT-generated text uses textGrain. OpenAI says API customers can opt in globally for select models, so watermarking depends on the product surface and configuration.

Official explanation

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