Compare Avg Price, Speech to Text, license, and release date. Search any speech-to-text model with the pickers below.
Inkling (256K)
Thinking Machines
N/A
Whisper Large V3 Turbo
OpenAI
$0.35
Whisper Large V3 Turbo currently shows the lower Avg Price: $0.35 vs N/A for Inkling (256K). That is the public Whisper API pricing versus Thinking Machines speech-to-text API pricing. Duration, resolution, and voice settings can still flip the invoice.
Whisper Large V3 Turbo currently leads on Speech to Text: 96.9 for Inkling (256K) vs 2.3K for Whisper Large V3 Turbo. Rank and price move independently, so the cheaper speech-to-text model is not automatically the weaker one.
Inkling (256K) is proprietary (Proprietary). Whisper Large V3 Turbo is open source (MIT). Open-weight models can be self-hosted; proprietary ones are billed only through the provider API on this page.
Use the model pickers at the top of this page. Search any speech-to-text model in the index and the URL updates to a new comparison, the same way LLM comparison pages work. Open either model from the sidebar for the single-model Avg Price page.
This comparison uses public llm-stats and ZeroEval arena data for speech-to-text models, then normalizes Avg Price, Speech to Text, license, and release date inside AnotherWrapper. Treat the numbers as comparable public list rates, not a quote from either vendor.
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