Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Whisper V3 Large
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Whisper V3 Large by Groq? We compared every Audio model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 15 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: Audio
Voxtral TTS100% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Same category
$0 in · $16 out / 1M Chars 98%
xAI Text To Speech100% CHEAPER
xAI
Same category
$15 in · $0 out / 1M Characters 98%
Nova-3 Monolingual Streaming96% CHEAPER
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0048 in · $0 out / 1 Minute Audio 96%
Nova-3 Multilingual Streaming95% CHEAPER
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0058 in · $0 out / 1 Minute Audio 96%
Flux English Streaming94% CHEAPER
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0065 in · $0 out / 1 Minute Audio 96%
Flux Multilingual Streaming93% CHEAPER
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0078 in · $0 out / 1 Minute Audio 96%
ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5100% CHEAPER
ElevenLabs
Same category
$0.3 in · $0 out / 1k Characters 90%
Qwen3 ASR Flash Realtime100% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.00009 in · $0.000047 out / second 78%
Nova 395% CHEAPER
Deepgram
Same category
$0.0058 in · $0.0092 out / minute 78%
Whisper Large v3 Turbo64% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category
$0.04 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Suno v555% CHEAPER
Suno
Same category
$0.05 in · $0 out / 1 Song (Credit) 90%
xAI Speech To Text REST10% CHEAPER
xAI
Same category
$0.1 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Suno v3.510% CHEAPER
Suno
Same category
$0.1 in · $0 out / 1 Song 90%
Udio v1.510% CHEAPER
Udio
Same category
$0.1 in · $0 out / 1 Song (Credit) 90%
Qwen3 TTS Flash10% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 78%
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview
Google
More modalitiesSame category
$0.75 in · $4.5 out / 1M Tokens 80%
Universal-2
AssemblyAI
Same category
$0.15 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Universal-3 Pro
AssemblyAI
Same category
$0.21 in · $0 out / 1 Hour Audio 98%
Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.