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 | 22.8M requests | +5% |
| 2 | Whisper Large V3 | openai | 11.1M requests | +8% |
| 3 | MAI-Transcribe 2 | microsoft | 9.03M requests | +5% |
| 4 | Scribe v2 | elevenlabs | 2.05M requests | +26% |
| 5 | GPT-4o Mini Transcribe | openai | 938K requests | 0% |
| 6 | GPT Transcribe | openai | 902K requests | +22% |
| 7 | Qwen3 ASR 1.7B | qwen | 754K requests | +5% |
| 8 | Whisper 1 | openai | 646K requests | +5% |
| 9 | Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 | nvidia | 639K requests | +12% |
| 10 | Nova-3 | deepgram | 636K requests | +25% |
Usage data through
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Domain · 30.8% of all spend- 1
40.0%+9.4 - 214.5%+7.6
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10.2%+0.5 - 47.8%-8.8
- 55.1%-2.4
- 63.6%+0.5
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2.6%+0.3 - 8
2.3%0.0 - 9
2.1%-0.4 - 101.9%-1.4
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