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Faster-Whisper vs whisper.cpp
Faster-Whisper or whisper.cpp? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Speech to text
- Only whisper.cpp states: API
Faster-Whisper
Open-source Python implementation of Whisper for faster, lower-memory speech transcription with CPU and NVIDIA GPU support.
Plans
Free
Free
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- Dependabot security and version updates
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 500MB of Packages storage
- Issues & Projects
- Community support
Team
- $4 per user/month
- Access to GitHub Codespaces
- Repository rules
- Multiple reviewers in pull requests
- Draft pull requests
- Code owners
- Required reviewers
Enterprise
- Starting at $21 per user/month
- Data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- Repository rules
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Speech to text — “Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2” source
Latest updates
- faster-whisper 1.2.1 (1.2.1)
Updated clip timestamp handling, batched inference, Silero-VAD to V6, and retry logic.
- faster-whisper 1.2.0 (1.2.0)
Added specific download revisions, distil-large-v3.5, private Hugging Face model loading, and silence removal in batched transcription.
whisper.cpp
whisper.cpp is a C/C++ implementation for running Whisper speech recognition locally on many platforms.
Plans
Free
Free
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- Dependabot security and version updates
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 500MB of Packages storage
- Issues & Projects
- Community support
Team
- $4 USD per user/month
- Access to GitHub Codespaces
- Repository rules
- Multiple reviewers in pull requests
- Draft pull requests
- Code owners
- 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month
Enterprise
- Starting at $21 USD per user/month
- Data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- Audit Log API
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Speech to text — “Now build the whisper-cli example and transcribe an audio file like this:” source
- API — “C-style API” source
Latest updates
- v1.9.4 (v1.9.4)
- b5127 (b5127)
Windows arm64 CUDA builds use a preview CUDA Toolkit for Windows on Arm and are experimental.
- v1.9.2 (v1.9.2)
Added Parakeet to the XCFramework build, improved Android example inference performance, and updated UTF-8 voice lengths and VAD timestamps.