Groq Whisper pricing per hour and per minute
Groq charges $0.04 to $0.111 an hour for recorded audio ($0.0007 to $0.0019 a minute) across 2 options. It lists no live transcription price. The free plan transcribes up to 7,200 audio seconds an hour and 28,800 a day (8 hours) per Whisper model at no charge, within its rate limits. Every request is billed for at least 10 seconds.
Ranked by each vendor's cheapest option at 100 hours a month, Groq comes 1st of 12 for recorded audio.
Prices by model
| Model | Audio | Per minute | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whisper Large V3 Turbo Transcription only, no translation. | batch | $0.0007 | $0.04 |
| Whisper Large V3 | batch | $0.0019 | $0.111 |
What 10, 100, 1,000 and 10,000 hours a month cost
| Model | 10 hours | 100 hours | 1,000 hours | 10,000 hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whisper Large V3 Turbo batch | $0.40 $0.04/h | $4 $0.04/h | $40 $0.04/h | $400 $0.04/h |
| Whisper Large V3 batch | $1.11 $0.111/h | $11.10 $0.111/h | $111 $0.111/h | $1,110 $0.111/h |
Regular prices. One-off credits and promotions aren't counted.
Free tier and credits
- The free plan transcribes up to 7,200 audio seconds an hour and 28,800 a day (8 hours) per Whisper model at no charge, within its rate limits.
Every vendor's free tier, in hours of audio: free speech-to-text APIs.
Billing
- Every request is billed for at least 10 seconds.
- Groq lists no live (streaming) transcription price.
- Files up to 25 MB on the free tier and 100 MB on the developer tier.
Quick answers
How much does Whisper on Groq cost per hour?
$0.04 to $0.111 an hour for recorded audio, at regular pay-as-you-go prices.
What do 100 hours of audio a month cost on Groq?
$4 for recorded audio on Whisper Large V3 Turbo.
Does Groq have a free tier?
The free plan transcribes up to 7,200 audio seconds an hour and 28,800 a day (8 hours) per Whisper model at no charge, within its rate limits.
Does Groq bill per second?
Every request is billed for at least 10 seconds.
Is anything cheaper than Groq for recorded audio?
No. At 100 hours a month, none of the 11 other vendors we price costs less.
Groq against the market: recorded audio
| # | Vendor and option | Per month | Per hour | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Groq Whisper Large V3 Turbo | $4 | $0.04 | $0.0007 |
| 2 | Speechmatics Melia 1 | $12 | $0.12 | $0.002 |
| 3 | AssemblyAI Universal-2 | $15 | $0.15 | $0.0025 |
| 4 | OpenAI gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | $18 | $0.18 | $0.003 |
| 4 | Google Cloud V2 dynamic batch | $18 | $0.18 | $0.003 |
| 4 | Azure AI Speech Batch transcription | $18 | $0.18 | $0.003 |
| 7 | Rev AI Reverb (English) | $20 | $0.20 | $0.0033 |
| 8 | ElevenLabs Scribe v2 | $21.01 | $0.21 | $0.0035 |
| 9 | Deepgram Nova-3 Monolingual | $25.80 | $0.258 | $0.0043 |
| 10 | Gemini API Gemini 3.5 Transcribe | $30.60 | $0.306 | $0.0051 |
| 11 | Amazon Transcribe Standard | $36 | $0.36 | $0.006 |
| 12 | Gladia Starter (async) | $61 | $0.61 | $0.0102 |
Price your own monthly hours with the speech-to-text cost calculator, a single recording on what it costs to transcribe an hour of audio, or see the cheapest speech-to-text API.
Head to head: Groq Whisper vs OpenAI Whisper.
Sources
Read on 6 October 2026:
- console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text (plain HTTP; groq.com/pricing now redirects to Groq's home page, so prices come from GroqCloud's documentation)
- console.groq.com/docs/models (plain HTTP)
- console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits (plain HTTP)
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Model Cost Per Hour Language Support Transcription Support Translation Support Real-time Speed Factor Word Error Rate whisper-large-v3 $0.111 Multilingual Yes Yes 189 10.3% whisper-large-v3-turbo $0.04 Multilingual Yes No 216 12%
console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
Whisper whisper-large-v3 - $0.111 per hour 200K ASH 300 RPM - - 100 MB Whisper Large V3 Turbo whisper-large-v3-turbo - $0.04 per hour
console.groq.com/docs/models
Minimum Billed Length 10 seconds. If you submit a request less than this, you will still be billed for 10 seconds.
console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
Max File Size 25 MB (free tier), 100MB (dev tier)
console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text
Free Plan Limits Developer Plan Limits MODEL ID RPM RPD TPM TPD ASH ASD
console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits
whisper-large-v3 20 2K - - 7.2K 28.8K whisper-large-v3-turbo 20 2K - - 7.2K 28.8K
console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits
Prices on this page were checked against the official pricing pages on .