Clasificaciones de modelos actualizadas según datos de uso reales.
Los modelos se clasifican por el total de caracteres transcritos procesados a través de la API de OpenRouter durante los últimos 7 días. Se muestran los 25 modelos mejor clasificados. Las clasificaciones miden el uso en OpenRouter y reflejan la adopción, no la calidad del modelo ni su rendimiento en pruebas de evaluación.
Los modelos de voz a texto convierten el audio hablado en texto para transcripciones, subtítulos, resúmenes de reuniones, análisis de llamadas y aplicaciones controladas por voz. Esta colección clasifica los modelos de transcripción según su uso en OpenRouter durante la última semana. Los mejores modelos actuales son Whisper Large V3 Turbo, MAI-Transcribe 2 y Whisper Large V3. Compare la precisión, la velocidad, los idiomas admitidos y el costo para encontrar el modelo adecuado para su flujo de trabajo de audio.
Whisper Large V3 Turbo is an optimized version of OpenAI's Whisper Large V3 speech recognition model, designed for speed and cost efficiency. It supports transcription across 99+ languages with a 12% word error rate, and accepts common audio formats including mp3, mp4, wav, webm, flac, and ogg. Achieves real-time speed factors up to 216x, making it well-suited for latency-sensitive and high-throughput transcription workloads.

MAI-Transcribe 2 is a multilingual speech-to-text model from Microsoft AI, ranked #1 on the FLEURS multilingual benchmark. It supports 60 languages with automatic language identification, code switching for mixed-language speech, speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, keyword biasing for domain-specific terminology, and configurable verbatim or clean transcription styles. It is suited for captions, call transcription, subtitling, accessibility, and other voice-enabled applications, and is faster than MAI-Transcribe-1.5 on long-form audio.
On OpenRouter, set response_format to "verbose_json" for segment timestamps, and add timestamp_granularities: ["word"] for word-level timestamps. Set provider.options.azure.diarization.enabled to true for speaker labels, provide keywords through provider.options.azure.phraseList.phrases, and select a transcription style through provider.options.azure.enhancedMode.modelOptions.transcribeStyle. See the speech-to-text guide.
Whisper Large V3 is OpenAI's open-source automatic speech recognition model offering both audio transcription and translation. It supports 99+ languages and accepts common audio formats including mp3, mp4, wav, webm, flac, and ogg. With 1,550M parameters, it achieves a 10.3% word error rate and is well-suited for noise-robust, multilingual transcription in demanding conditions. Supports timestamp granularities at word and segment levels.
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 is a speech-to-text model that transcribes audio in 90+ languages with word-level timestamps, optional speaker diarization, and audio-event tagging.
GPT-4o Mini Transcribe is OpenAI's smaller, cost-efficient speech-to-text model built on GPT-4o Mini audio capabilities. It's priced per token (input and output), making it suitable for high-volume transcription workflows that benefit from token-level billing transparency at a lower cost point.
Grok STT is SpaceXAI's speech-to-text model, available via the REST /v1/stt endpoint. It supports transcription with word-level timestamps, optional speaker diarization, and multichannel audio.

Voxtral Mini Transcribe is Mistral's speech-to-text model, derived from the Voxtral Mini family. It accepts audio input and returns transcribed text via the standard transcription API. Suited for transcribing meetings, voice notes, podcasts, and other spoken content.

Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 is Mistral's flagship speech-to-text model. It takes audio input and returns a transcript with timestamps and speaker diarization, and supports context biasing for domain-specific vocabulary. Suited for high-accuracy multilingual transcription of meetings, interviews, media, and support calls.
Whisper is OpenAI's open-source automatic speech recognition model, available via API as whisper-1. It supports transcription and translation across 50+ languages from audio files up to 25 MB. Accepts formats including mp3, mp4, wav, and webm. Priced per minute of audio duration, billed to the nearest second.

Qwen3 ASR 1.7B is an automatic speech recognition model from Qwen. It supports multilingual language identification and transcription across 30 languages and 22 Chinese dialects, with streaming and offline inference plus segment-level and word-level timestamps.
Deepgram Nova-3 general-purpose speech-to-text model with monolingual and multilingual transcription support.
GPT Transcribe is a high-accuracy speech-to-text model from OpenAI. It is suited for recorded audio, streamed file transcription, and committed Realtime turns, with free-form context, keyword hints, and multiple language hints for specialized terms and multilingual speech.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a speech-to-text model from Google. It is suited for synchronous transcription that needs word-level timestamps or speaker diarization, with support for up to eight speakers. Audio can be up to one hour, or 30 minutes when timestamps or diarization are enabled.
Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 is NVIDIA's 600M-parameter multilingual speech-to-text model built on the FastConformer-TDT architecture. Trained on the Granary dataset (670,000+ hours of audio), it supports automatic language detection across all official EU languages and achieves a 6.34% average word error rate on the HuggingFace Open ASR Leaderboard. Returns transcribed text with punctuation and segment timestamps.
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight speech recognition model from NVIDIA, a 30B mixture-of-experts with about 4B active parameters. It transcribes recordings of up to one hour in 40 languages, with speaker attribution, speech translation, and prompt-guided vocabulary and style.

Qwen3 ASR 0.6B is a compact automatic speech recognition model from Qwen. It supports multilingual language identification and transcription across 30 languages and 22 Chinese dialects, with streaming and offline inference plus segment-level and word-level timestamps.
GPT-4o Transcribe is OpenAI's high-quality speech-to-text model built on GPT-4o audio capabilities. It's priced per token (input and output), making it suitable for workflows that benefit from token-level billing transparency.
Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming Multilingual 0.6B is a speech recognition model from NVIDIA. Its prompt-conditioned, cache-aware FastConformer-RNNT design targets low-latency transcription across more than 40 languages for real-time captioning, voice agents, and multilingual transcription pipelines.
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Medical is a speech-to-text model tuned for clinical and medical terminology, with word-level timestamps, optional speaker diarization, and audio-event tagging.
Universal-3.6 Pro is AssemblyAI's speech-to-text model and the successor to Universal-3.5 Pro, served here through AssemblyAI's Sync API. Compared with Universal-3.5 Pro, AssemblyAI reports 30% fewer errors on short conversational utterances, 12% fewer errors on average across supported languages, 14 newly supported languages, and better recognition and formatting of entities such as phone numbers, addresses, emails, and codes. It returns a complete transcript with word-level timestamps in a single synchronous response for audio up to 20 minutes, accepts WAV and compressed input (MP3, M4A, AAC, Ogg/Opus, FLAC, and WebM), and supports free-text prompting, keyterms, and conversation context to steer transcription toward domain vocabulary.
Universal-3.5 Pro is AssemblyAI's speech-to-text model served through its Sync API, returning a complete transcript with word-level timestamps in a single synchronous response for audio up to 20 minutes. It accepts WAV and compressed input (MP3, M4A, AAC, Ogg/Opus, FLAC, and WebM) and supports free-text prompting, keyterms, and conversation context to steer transcription toward domain vocabulary.

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 is Mistral's compact speech-to-text model. It takes audio input and returns a transcript with timestamps and speaker diarization. It also supports context biasing for domain terms. It is small enough to self-deploy in resource-constrained environments, and fits meeting notes, call analytics, and voice-agent pipelines where cost matters.

MAI-Transcribe 1.5 is a multilingual speech-to-text model from Microsoft AI. It is suited for captions, call transcription, subtitling, accessibility, and other voice-enabled applications, with reliable transcription across 43 languages, diverse accents, and noisy real-world audio. It supports automatic language identification and keyword biasing for domain-specific terminology, and improves long-form transcription speed over MAI-Transcribe-1. Speaker diarization is not supported.
Transcribe 1 Pro is a speech-to-text model from Fish Audio tuned for interviews, meetings, and podcasts. It labels speakers with inline speaker markers, preserves emotion and vocal-event cues such as [laughter], detects language automatically, and can return timestamped word-level segments.
Chirp 3 is Google's latest multilingual speech-to-text model. It offers enhanced transcription accuracy across 24 GA languages and 77+ preview languages, with support for automatic language detection, automatic punctuation, and a built-in denoiser for cleaner audio processing.
Envíe la grabación a POST /api/v1/audio/transcriptions con un slug de modelo de voz a texto de esta página, ya sea como una carga multipart file compatible con OpenAI o como un objeto input_audio que contenga el audio codificado en base64 y su format, como wav o mp3. La respuesta JSON contiene la transcripción en text. Todos los modelos STT de OpenRouter utilizan este endpoint, aunque los formatos de audio y las opciones compatibles varían según el modelo. La guía de voz a texto enumera todos los parámetros de solicitud.
Cada elemento de esta página muestra su precio en la unidad que factura el proveedor. Los modelos basados en la duración cobran por segundo de audio y los modelos basados en tokens cobran por token de entrada y de salida, por lo que la longitud de la transcripción también afecta a su coste. Compare los precios en la misma unidad antes de elegir; no hay una suscripción independiente por proveedor.
Sí. Pase un código language ISO-639-1 como en o ja; si lo omite, el idioma se detecta automáticamente. Los idiomas admitidos varían según el modelo, así que consulte la página del modelo antes de enviar audio en otro idioma.
Sí. Una sola clave de API de OpenRouter funciona con todos los modelos STT de esta página y con todos los demás modelos de OpenRouter. Cree una clave en su página de claves de API.