Whisper large-v3-turbo
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: A little less accurate than large-v3: the card says the speed comes at the expense of a minor quality degradation.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 809M speech-recognition model: Whisper large-v3 with the decoder cut from 32 to 4 layers, so it is much faster. MIT licence. |
| Modality | audio |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | MIT |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use Whisper large-v3-turbo
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: MIT.
Quickstart
pip install -U transformers accelerate && python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('automatic-speech-recognition', model='openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo')('audio.mp3')['text'])"Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Whisper large-v3-turbo" (openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- A little less accurate than large-v3: the card says the speed comes at the expense of a minor quality degradation.
- MIT (licence tag on the HF repo): use, modify and sell freely; keep the copyright notice.
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Whisper large-v3-turbo free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · MIT. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Whisper large-v3-turbo commercially?
Yes, under MIT. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Whisper large-v3-turbo?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: MIT.
Source: huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo, checked 8 Oct 2026.