Whisper 3 Large

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Whisper 3 Large from OpenAI: Open Whisper checkpoint for robust multilingual transcription and captioning.

Key specifications

Specification score
7.9
Context window
448
Max output
4.1K
Input / 1M tokens
$0.00
Output / 1M tokens
$0.00
License
Open weights

The specification score summarizes recorded features and limits. It is not a benchmark result.

Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Audio input

Produces

  • Text output

Capabilities

AudioOpen weights

What is Whisper 3 Large?

What Whisper 3 Large is for

Open Whisper checkpoint for robust multilingual transcription and captioning. The registry places it in the whisper family with a release date of 2024-10-01. This profile describes its documented interface and how to evaluate it for the intended task.

Inputs and request limits

The recorded inputs are audio, with text output. The registry lists a 448-token context window and up to 4,096 output tokens. Additional capability flags are not established by this record. These are specifications, not a measured quality or speed ranking. A host can impose its own request limits and support a different subset of features.

Deployment and cost

The registry marks Whisper 3 Large as an open-weight model. Check the linked checkpoint’s licence and runtime requirements before downloading or deploying it. Open weights describe availability, while licence terms determine permitted use. Local inference still requires hardware; a hosted route can charge separately.

No independently checked token rate is added from a hosting alias. Use the route’s current price and billing unit when comparing cost, including output, reasoning, cache behavior and retries where applicable.

What to test

Use audio from the languages, microphones and noise conditions you expect in deployment. Check names, numbers, punctuation and timestamps separately. Measure transcription errors and, for streaming, the delay before a stable transcript. Audio minutes and text tokens are different billing units.

Evidence and related models

This is a registry-sourced profile. A model-specific publisher document has not yet been confirmed; access and specifications should be checked before an integration decision. SyncDev has not independently benchmarked Whisper 3 Large.

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How to evaluate Whisper 3 Large

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Tasks and inputs

Whisper 3 Large is listed for Automatic speech recognition. It accepts audio and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

Documented limits: 448 context and 4.1K maximum output. The listed route charges $0.00 input and $0.00 output per million tokens. Measure a completed task using the prompts, documents and tools your application will use. Include reasoning and retries in the result.

Choosing a deployment

The weights are downloadable under the publisher’s model licence. Check runtime support and size the complete model and working context for your expected concurrency.

Frequently asked questions

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