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MIDRank #3 in captions

OpenAI Whisper-3

by OpenAI

The hosted Whisper - solid baseline at hosted convenience.

8.4/ 10.0
OUR SCORE

Price

$0.0060 / minute

Reviewed

2026-06-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Best for

Hosted ASR convenience

Vendor

OpenAI

Score breakdown

quality

9/10

control

7/10

speed

9/10

value

9/10

ecosystem

9/10

Our review

OpenAI's hosted Whisper-3 endpoint is the easy default - same model architecture as WhisperX uses, just hosted with the OpenAI API ergonomics you already know.

No word-level alignment out of the box (you'd add WhisperX or verbose_json post-processing); good language coverage; ~$0.006/minute pricing.

For teams without GPU infra, this is the convenient hosted version of the open-source champion.

Verdict: convenient hosted Whisper. 8.4/10.

Pros

  • +Easy hosted API
  • +Same Whisper model that WhisperX uses
  • +Reasonable pricing
  • +Strong language coverage

Cons

  • −No word-level timing without post-processing
  • −No diarization

Best for

Hosted ASR convenienceTeams already on OpenAI

Not for

Word-level captioning (use WhisperX)

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