GPT Transcribe
OpenAI's newest transcription model, the successor to Whisper.
- Best for
- Apps and scripts that transcribe audio
- On your PC
- No, online only
- Works on
- API
- Made by
- OpenAI
What’s good
- Third best on the multilingual Open ASR leaderboard
- Cheaper per minute than the old Whisper API
- Live version (gpt-live-transcribe) for real-time captions
Downsides
- Developer API only, no simple app for files
- Less accurate than Scribe v2 and Voxtral 3 on tests
- Unlike Whisper, the weights are not downloadable
At a glance.
- Best for
- Apps and scripts that transcribe audio
- Price
- Paid
- For developers
- $0.0045 per minute; gpt-4o-mini-transcribe $0.003 per minute
- Version
- gpt-transcribeReleased 2026-07
- Works on
- API
- Open source
- No
- Made by
- OpenAI
- Website
- developers.openai.com
How it ranks.
- Open ASR Leaderboard multilingual, average WER#3 · 4.362026-11-05
- Open ASR Leaderboard English, average WER#18 · 6.762026-11-05
- Artificial Analysis speech to text, AA-WER %#18 · 3.32026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
No. It only runs online.
Your prompts and files go to the company’s servers. See the local options in this category for a private alternative.
Want it offline? The best local option for speech to text is Whisper large-v3 turbo.