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Whisper V3: MIT open-weight large-v3 family.
Deepgram Nova-2: Previous hosted ASR; docs recommend Nova-3 / Flux.
GPT-5.6 Sol: Live OpenAI frontier chat if you wandered here for a current model.

Whisper V3

Open-weight Whisper large-v3 family. Not OpenAI's current hosted STT default.

8000DR: 95AS: 92

Deepgram Nova-2

Previous Deepgram ASR. Not the fastest 2026 crown.

2500DR: 85AS: 83

GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI frontier flagship GPT-5.6 Sol: 1.05M context, effort up to max plus ultra, $5/$30 per 1M tokens.

15000000DR: 95AS: 95