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OpenAI GPT-4o Transcribe vs xAI Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0

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.

Learn more about GPT-4o Transcribe →
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xAI's speech-to-text model, which returns word-level timing for subtitles, can label who is speaking and follows key-term hints for names, in multiple languages.

Learn more about Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 →
Overview
Creator
OpenAI
xAI
Released
Mar 2025
Sep 2026
Available on
OpenAIOpenRouter
xAIOpenRouter
Model ID
openai/gpt-4o-transcribe
xai/grok-voice-transcribe-2.0
Specs
Pricing
$0.006 per minute of audio
$0.0017 per minute of audio
Type
Speech-to-text
Speech-to-text
Languages
Multilingual
Multilingual
Timestamps
-
Timed segments
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.

No sample yet
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 $1,249.50 for twelve units, and the parcel weighs 2.5 kilograms. Please call Dr. Elena Markovich at 9:45 AM to confirm.

No sample yet
Two speakers over noiseBackground noise, a second accent, speaker changes
0:00 / 0:13
32 words differ

Excuse me, is this seat taken?

No sample yet

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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