How much does Whisper cost?

Billing is usage-based at $0.0015 per minute of audio. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use, and current rates are shown in the Hormouz dashboard.

How do I access Whisper from inside Iran?

Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to Whisper from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

How do I call Whisper?

Use the OpenAI-compatible transcriptions endpoint: upload an audio file (mp3, wav, m4a and other common formats) and receive the transcript back. Point your base URL at Hormouz and use a Hormouz key. Existing OpenAI SDK transcription code works unchanged.

What languages does Whisper support?

Whisper supports 99+ languages for transcription and can also translate speech into English, making it a fit for multilingual audio.

What is Whisper good for?

Whisper works well for transcribing meetings, calls, podcasts and voice notes, and translating speech across 99+ languages.

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Whisper is an OpenAI speech-to-text model for multilingual transcription and translation, callable with a drop-in OpenAI transcriptions API, via Hormouz.

Pricing:: ~$0.000575 / sec (Nvidia A40 GPU)
Type:: audio, text

Audio

Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech-recognition model for multilingual transcription and translation. Whisper is OpenAI's open-source automatic speech-recognition model, offering both transcription and translation. It supports 99+ languages, accepts common formats such as mp3, mp4, wav, webm, flac and ogg, and is well-suited to noise-robust, multilingual transcription with word- and segment-level timestamps.

Whisper is served through Hormouz behind an OpenAI-compatible transcriptions API: upload an audio file and receive the transcript as JSON. Point your base URL at Hormouz and use a Hormouz key to call it from your existing code.

Pricing is usage-based at $0.0015 per minute of audio. Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Quickstart

# Create the prediction, then poll until succeeded
curl -s https://api.hormouz.net/v1/predictions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"version":"openai/whisper","input":{"audio":"https://example.com/input.mp3"}}'

Specs

Vendor	OpenAI
Type	Audio, Text
Context window	—
Pricing	~$0.000575 / sec (Nvidia A40 GPU)
API	predictions

Code example

cURL

# Create the prediction, then poll until succeeded
curl -s https://api.hormouz.net/v1/predictions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"version":"openai/whisper","input":{"audio":"https://example.com/input.mp3"}}'

Python

import requests
BASE = "https://api.hormouz.net/v1"
H = {"Authorization": "Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
r = requests.post(f"{BASE}/predictions", headers=H,
    json={"version": "openai/whisper", "input": {"audio":"https://example.com/input.mp3"}})
print(r.json()["id"])

JavaScript

const BASE = "https://api.hormouz.net/v1";
const res = await fetch(`${BASE}/predictions`, {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ version: "openai/whisper", input: {"audio":"https://example.com/input.mp3"} }),
});
const { id } = await res.json();

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FAQ

How much does Whisper cost?: Billing is usage-based at $0.0015 per minute of audio. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use, and current rates are shown in the Hormouz dashboard.
How do I access Whisper from inside Iran?: Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to Whisper from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.
How do I call Whisper?: Use the OpenAI-compatible transcriptions endpoint: upload an audio file (mp3, wav, m4a and other common formats) and receive the transcript back. Point your base URL at Hormouz and use a Hormouz key. Existing OpenAI SDK transcription code works unchanged.
What languages does Whisper support?: Whisper supports 99+ languages for transcription and can also translate speech into English, making it a fit for multilingual audio.
What is Whisper good for?: Whisper works well for transcribing meetings, calls, podcasts and voice notes, and translating speech across 99+ languages.

Updated 2026-10-13