Whisper large-v3

Open weights

Whisper large-v3 is a transcription model from OpenAI. Provider list price is $0.0015 per minute; on Allocate you pay $0.0016 with the 7% transaction fee. The weights are open under Apache 2.0, so you can fine-tune it and own the result.

Pricing

Token usage bills at the provider list price plus the 7% transaction fee. Prices checked 2026-07-08.

Price against its peers

Provider list prices per minute, Whisper large-v3 against its nearest transcription peers by price.

What a real workload costs

Transcribing 1,000 minutes of audio costs 1,000 × $0.0015 = $1.50 at list, or $1.60 billed on Allocate with the 7% transaction fee included.

Whisper large-v3 is an open-weights model under the Apache 2.0 license. Fine-tune it on your own data and the weights stay inside your boundary; they belong to you.

Example usage

Point a route at openai/whisper-large-v3 and the endpoint never changes; swap the model behind it whenever you want.

curl https://api.allocate.network/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ALLOCATE_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "openai/whisper-large-v3",
    "messages": [{"role": "user",
      "content": "Summarise the attached contract."}]
  }'

Common questions