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Whisper
Whisper is an AI model made by OpenAI. OpenAI released it on 21 September 2022. It takes audio and returns text. Its weights are open.
Whisper is an AI model made by OpenAI. OpenAI released it on 21 September 2022. It takes audio and returns text. Its weights are open. Its licence is MIT License.
- Released
- 21 September 2022 — openai.com, read 16 October 2026
- Status
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: deprecated and ga
- Takes
- Audio — developers.openai.com, read 16 October 2026
- Returns
- Text — developers.openai.com, read 16 October 2026
- Open weights
- Yes — github.com, read 16 October 2026
- Licence
- MIT License — github.com, read 16 October 2026
- Context window
- Not confirmed: OpenAI's Whisper API model page and Whisper model card do not print a standard context-window figure.
- Longest answer
- Not confirmed: OpenAI's Whisper API model page and Whisper model card do not print a standard maximum-output token limit.
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not confirmed: OpenAI's Whisper API model page and Whisper model card do not state a knowledge cutoff.
- API price, input
- $0.006 per minute — developers.openai.com, read 16 October 2026
- API price, output
- Not confirmed: OpenAI lists a transcription charge per minute, not a separate standard output price per 1 million tokens.
- Where
- Not confirmed: two readings disagree: api, weights and api
- Parameters
- Not confirmed: The Whisper model card publishes different parameter counts for different variants, not one parameter count for the Whisper model as a whole or for the API model whisper-1.
- Model card
- https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/model-card.md — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Questions
When was Whisper released?
OpenAI released Whisper on 21 September 2022.
Are the weights of Whisper open?
Yes: OpenAI publishes the weights of Whisper for download.
What is the licence of Whisper?
The licence of Whisper is MIT License, as OpenAI names it.
What does Whisper take and return?
Whisper takes audio and returns text.
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Sources
- Introducing Whisper (read 16 October 2026)
- Whisper Model | OpenAI API (read 16 October 2026)
- Model Card: Whisper (read 16 October 2026)
- Whisper (read 16 October 2026)
- Deprecations (read 16 October 2026)