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Whisper

Whisper Transcription is available in the Business API catalog.

openai/whisper/transcription

Examples

representative generations · starting points to seed the playground

In the summer of 1969, Apollo 11 carried three astronauts a quarter of a million miles to the moon. More than 50 years later, we are finally preparing to return. And this time, we intend to stay.

Transcribe a documentary-style English narration (proper nouns + numbers) with Whisper.

Welcome to Starburger, can I take your order? Uh-huh, one Mega Melt, large curly fries, and a strawberry shake. That'll be $12.50 at the first window. Drive on up.

Transcribe a fast English drive-thru order with timestamps.

City lights blur 夜來色溫柔 / Pages on my desk 時間慢慢走 / Stay a little longer 別著急 / One more cup of coffee 陪著你 / Yeah yeah yeah (×2)

Transcribe sung, code-switching bilingual (EN/ZH) lo-fi song lyrics.

Per-model pricing

Transparent, usage-based rates for every OpenAI model.

GPT Image 2

Image

Image to Image

Image output$30 / 1M tok
Input$5 / 1M tok
Image input$8 / 1M tok

Text to Image

Image output$22.50 / 1M tok
Input$3.75 / 1M tok

WhisperCurrent

Audio • Transcription

$0.007 / min

GPT-5.6 Sol

LLM

Input$5 / 1M tok
Output$30 / 1M tok
Cached input$0.50 / 1M tok

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra

LLM

Input$2 / 1M tok
Output$12 / 1M tok
Cached input$0.20 / 1M tok

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna

LLM

Input$0.20 / 1M tok
Output$1.20 / 1M tok
Cached input$0.02 / 1M tok

GPT-5.5

LLM

Input$2.50 / 1M tok
Output$15 / 1M tok
Cached input$0.25 / 1M tok