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OpenAI GPT-4o Transcribe vs OpenAI Whisper
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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OpenAI's most accurate hosted transcription model, which follows a hint for names and terms and returns plain text without timestamps.
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OpenAI's hosted Whisper model, which transcribes speech in dozens of languages and returns timed segments for subtitles.
Learn more about Whisper →Overview
Creator
OpenAI
OpenAI
Released
1 year ago (Mar 2025)
3 years ago (Mar 2023)
Available on
OpenAI
OpenAI
Model ID
openai/gpt-4o-transcribe
openai/whisper-1
Specs
Pricing
$0.006 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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