Alternatives to Whisper V3

These tools sit near Whisper V3. Compare features and pricing before you switch.

San Francisco lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT API. Current flagship is GPT-5.6 Sol; GPT-5.2 remains the previous frontier snapshot.

2800000DR: 148AS: 162

Hosted OpenAI whisper-1 snapshot. Rechecked: listed at $0.006/min. Not the 2026 default STT path.

5897DR: 148AS: 158

OpenAI's latest image generation model for fast, high-quality create and edit jobs, with flexible sizes up to 4K and token-based API pricing.

1000DR: 80AS: 80