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 including mp3, mp4, wav, and webm. Priced per minute of audio duration, billed to the nearest second.
Modalities
Price
$0.006per minute
Released
Apr 27, 2026
OpenRouter provides a speech-to-text API that transcribes audio into text. Send base64-encoded audio with a model, and receive the transcribed text in JSON.
The generation ID is returned in the X-Generation-Id response header for tracking.
For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.
See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.
