Transcription Model Rankings
Live transcript generation rankings based on real usage data from millions of people using models through OpenRouter. View all transcription models
| Rank | Model | Author | requests | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whisper Large V3 Turbo | openai | 24.4M requests | +24% |
| 2 | Whisper Large V3 | openai | 11.1M requests | +11% |
| 3 | MAI-Transcribe 2 | microsoft | 9.73M requests | +24% |
| 4 | Scribe v2 | elevenlabs | 1.96M requests | +4% |
| 5 | GPT-4o Mini Transcribe | openai | 1.05M requests | +27% |
| 6 | GPT Transcribe | openai | 908K requests | +28% |
| 7 | Qwen3 ASR 1.7B | qwen | 800K requests | +19% |
| 8 | Whisper 1 | openai | 654K requests | +8% |
| 9 | Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 | nvidia | 651K requests | +17% |
| 10 | Grok STT 1.0 | x-ai | 616K requests | -16% |
Usage data through
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Domain · 30.6% of all spend- 1
40.3%+9.8 - 214.2%+7.4
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10.0%+0.2 - 47.9%-8.8
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2.6%+0.3 - 8
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2.1%-0.4 - 101.9%-0.4
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