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OpenAI Whisper vs Saaras

OpenAI Whisper or Saaras? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In short

  • Both: Speech to text, Many languages
  • Only OpenAI Whisper states: Dubbing
  • Only Saaras states: API

OpenAI Whisper

OpenAI Whisper is an open-source speech recognition system for transcription, translation, and language identification.

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 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Speech to text — “The following command will transcribe speech in audio files, using the turbo model:” source
  • Dubbing — “To translate speech into English, use:” source
  • Many languages — “Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model.” source
About OpenAI Whisper

Saaras

Saaras is Sarvam AI's speech-to-text model for transcribing, translating, and processing speech in Indian languages.

Plans

Starter (Pay as you go)

  • ₹3.00 per 1,000 characters (Text to speech, Real-time)
  • ₹3.00 per 1,000 characters (Text to speech, Streaming)
  • ₹30.00 per hour (Speech to text, Real-time)
  • ₹30.00 per hour (Speech to text, Streaming)
  • ₹30.00 per hour (Speech to text, Batch)
  • ₹45.00 per hour (Speech to text, Batch with diarization)
  • ₹128.10 per 1M tokens (GLM 5.2, input)
  • ₹23.79 per 1M tokens (GLM 5.2, cached input)
  • ₹402.60 per 1M tokens (GLM 5.2, output)
  • ₹36.60 per 1M tokens (Gemma-4 31B, input)
  • ₹13.73 per 1M tokens (Gemma-4 31B, cached input)
  • ₹91.50 per 1M tokens (Gemma-4 31B, output)
  • ₹29.28 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B, input)
  • ₹10.98 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B, cached input)
  • ₹73.20 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B, output)
  • ₹29.28 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Chat, input)
  • ₹10.98 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Chat, cached input)
  • ₹73.20 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Chat, output)
  • ₹29.28 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Conversations, input)
  • ₹10.98 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Conversations, cached input)
  • ₹73.20 per 1M tokens (Sarvam 105B Conversations, output)
  • ₹0.005 per character (Translate & transliterate, Pay as you go)
  • ₹0.50 per page (Digitisation API)
  • ₹1.00 per page (Extraction API)
  • ₹1.67 per second (Dubbing API, Pay as you go)
  • ₹0.005 (Translate & transliterate, Starter)
  • ₹1.67 (Dubbing API, Starter)
  • Start with free credits, then add exactly what you need
  • Universal credits across supported APIs
  • Credits never expire
  • No monthly commitment

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Tailored limits, throughput, pricing, and support
  • Higher rate limits on every API
  • Custom concurrency & throughput
  • Volume discounts on credits
  • Dedicated support & SLAs

Pro

  • ₹0.005 per character (Translate & transliterate, Pro)
  • ₹1.67 per second (Dubbing API, Pro)

    Growth

    • ₹0.0045 per character (Translate & transliterate, Growth)
    • ₹1.25 per second (Dubbing API, Growth)

      Business

      • ₹0.004 per character (Translate & transliterate, Business)
      • ₹1.20 per second (Dubbing API, Business)

        Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

        Capabilities

        • Speech to text — “From the same audio input, it can produce five transcript modes: verbatim, normalized, code-mixed, transliterated, and translated.” source
        • Many languages — “Saaras V4 achieved SOTA performance on all 22 Indian languages and reaffirms our commitment to even the most low-resource Indian languages” source
        • API — “Integrate Saaras v4 into your application with a simple API key from the Sarvam AI dashboard” source

        Security

        • SOC 2 Type II — “Complete data residency in India. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified.” source
        • SOC 2 — “Complete data residency in India. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified.” source
        • ISO 27001 — “We're ISO 27001:2022 certified and hold SOC 2 Type II.” source
        • Not trained on your data — “Customer data is never used to train models for other customers” source

        Latest updates

        About Saaras