Whisper (self-hosted) by OpenAI (open source)

OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model: multilingual transcription and translation you run yourself.

Price

Free (open source)

you pay only for the compute it runs on

Free tier

Yes

Free (open source, MIT)

SDK downloads

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PyPI openai-whisper

Status

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no public status page

Pricing

Free tier	Free (open source, MIT)
Cheapest paid plan	—
Usage price	—
Good to know	No per-minute fee: you pay for the CPU or GPU it runs on and for running the service.

Open source: free to run on your own hardware; you pay only for the compute. Checked

MCP server	None found
PyPI	`pip install openai-whisper`

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