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ElevenLabs Scribe v2 vs OpenAI GPT-4o Transcribe

Specs, pricing, and capabilities side by side, plus outputs generated from identical prompts, so the only variable between the columns is the model.

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ElevenLabs' batch transcription model, which returns word-level timing for subtitles and can label who is speaking.

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OpenAI's most accurate hosted transcription model, which follows a hint for names and terms and returns plain text without timestamps.

Learn more about GPT-4o Transcribe →
Overview
Creator
ElevenLabs
OpenAI
Released
Jan 2026
Mar 2025
Available on
ElevenLabsOpenRouter
OpenAIOpenRouter
Model ID
elevenlabs/scribe-v2
openai/gpt-4o-transcribe
Specs
Pricing
$0.0037 per minute of audio
$0.006 per minute of audio
Type
Speech-to-text
Speech-to-text
Languages
Multilingual
Multilingual
Timestamps
Timed segments
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Speaker labels
Supported
-
Samples
Plain dictationBaseline accuracy and punctuation on clean speech
0:00 / 0:10
Matches the script

Thanks for joining on such short notice. We moved the launch to Thursday, so could you send me your notes before lunch? I will share the final schedule with everyone tomorrow morning

Matches the script

Thanks for joining on such short notice. We moved the launch to Thursday, so could you send me your notes before lunch? I will share the final schedule with everyone tomorrow morning.

Numbers and namesHow dates, amounts, units and a surname are written out
0:00 / 0:19

Invoice 4471 is due on March 3rd, 2027. The total comes to one thousand two hundred forty-nine dollars and fifty cents for twelve units, and the parcel weighs two point five kilograms. Please call Dr. Elena Markovich at nine forty-five AM to confirm.

Invoice 4471 is due on March 3rd, 2027. The total comes to $1,249.50 for twelve units, and the parcel weighs 2.5 kilograms. Please call Dr. Elena Markovich at 9:45 AM to confirm.

Two speakers over noiseBackground noise, a second accent, speaker changes
0:00 / 0:13
Matches the script

Excuse me, is this seat taken? No, go ahead. Are you heading to the conference as well? I am. Do you know which stop it is? The one after the river, I think. We can walk over together.

32 words differ

Excuse me, is this seat taken?

Every transcript is the model’s first result for the shared clip (no cherry-picking), transcribed via OpenRouter. The clips are synthetic speech made with ElevenLabs v4, and an underlined word differs from the spoken script. Hover a copy icon to read the script.

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