Whisper Transcriber
Pricing
$20.00 / 1,000 transcribed minutes
Transcribes audio and video from direct media URLs using faster-whisper large-v3 on a GPU, with optional speaker diarization. Returns plain text, SRT, VTT and speaker-labelled segments, priced per transcribed minute.
Direct links to audio or video FILES — a podcast enclosure MP3, or a hosted MP4/WAV/M4A/FLAC/OGG. YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Spotify and other streaming sites are NOT supported and are rejected with an explanatory message: downloading from them breaks their terms of service. A link that returns a web page rather than a media file is rejected too.
Language spoken in the media, as an ISO 639-1 code. Leave on "Detect automatically" unless detection is getting it wrong — naming the language is faster and more accurate on short or noisy clips.
Label each segment with who is speaking (SPEAKER_00, SPEAKER_01, …). Useful for interviews, panels and meetings. It adds word-level alignment and a speaker-clustering pass, so runs take noticeably longer; leave it off for single-speaker audio.
Safety cap on how long a single file may take to transcribe. A file that needs longer is abandoned and NOT charged. Raise it for long-form audio such as full-length podcasts or lectures.
Files larger than this are skipped before any GPU time is spent, so you are never charged for them.
Hard ceiling on what this run may charge. The run stops once transcribed minutes reach it, so a long list of files cannot produce a surprise bill. Runs are billed a 3-minute minimum, so the smallest useful ceiling is the price of 3 minutes. Apify's own "Maximum cost per run" setting applies on top of this.
