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Whisper Large v3 Turbo API pricing

$0.0012825 per audio minute, on /v1/audio/transcriptions and /v1/audio/translations.

whisper-large-v3-turboTranscription/v1/audio/transcriptions/v1/audio/translations

Price · per audio minute, USD

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AudioUplinkSwitch
One minute of audio$0.0012825
One hour of audio$0.08
100 hours of audio$7.70
Prices read from the live catalog on 2026-11-04; the page follows the catalog.

Whisper Large v3 Turbo API request

curl
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UPLINK_API_KEY" \
  -F model=whisper-large-v3-turbo \
  -F file=@call.mp3 \
  -F response_format=json
Python
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1", api_key="sk-uplink-live-...")

with open("call.mp3", "rb") as f:
    text = client.audio.transcriptions.create(model="whisper-large-v3-turbo", file=f)
print(text.text)

# Speech in any language to English text
with open("call.mp3", "rb") as f:
    english = client.audio.translations.create(model="whisper-large-v3-turbo", file=f)

Whisper Large v3 Turbo questions

$0.0012825 per audio minute, from the live catalog. It is billed on the audio length the model reports, rounded up to the second. A failed request is not charged.

/v1/audio/transcriptions and /v1/audio/translations on https://api.uplinkswitch.com, in OpenAI's request format, with the same sk-uplink- key and prepaid balance as every chat model. Send "whisper-large-v3-turbo" as the model.

Yes. Point the SDK's base URL at https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1 and use your key.

Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 ($0.015 per audio minute), Whisper Large v3 ($0.015 per audio minute). Every one is on the same key.