Whisper 1
Robust automatic speech recognition model from OpenAI supporting multilingual speech transcription, translation, and language identification.
OpenAI
OpenAI
This model is deprecated
Whisper 1 has been deprecated. It is still served on nRouter and can still be called.
Caller Notice: To help identify integrations still relying on this model, all API responses now include x-nr-model-deprecated: true and Warning: 299 - "Model deprecated" headers.
Specifications
Context window, ranked against other audio transcription models
Proportional scale: 0 to 16K tokens. Not ranked, no published context window: gpt-transcribe, gpt-live-transcribe.
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audio transcription
Benchmarks
Pricing
Rates are read live
Pricing for whisper-1 is fetched from the live catalogue on load, so it is never served from a cache that could outlive a repricing.
Availability
Not enough data yet
We have not collected enough health probes for this model to publish an uptime or latency figure. A percentage from a handful of samples is fabricated precision, so none is shown until the sample count supports one.
How Whisper 1 is billed
Billed at the provider's list price, with no per-token markup.
- Exact list price
- Tokens settle at the published rate of the model that served your call.
- Cache discounts passed through
- Provider prompt-caching discounts reach your balance with no added fee.
- Cost on every response
- Each response carries the
x-nr-request-costheader, so you can reconcile spend per request.