Whisper vs AssemblyAI
A detailed comparison to help you choose the right AI tool
Whisper
OpenAI's open-source speech recognitionAssemblyAI
Enterprise speech-to-text APICategory
Audio & Voice
Audio & Voice
Pricing
free
freemium
Key Features
- Open source
- Local deployment
- Multiple languages
- High accuracy
- Flexible
- Speech-to-text
- Speaker diarization
- Sentiment analysis
- Entity detection
- Summarization
- Real-time
About Whisper
Whisper is OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model that can be run locally for transcription.
About AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI provides enterprise-grade speech-to-text, speaker diarization, and audio intelligence APIs.
Which Should You Choose?
Choose Whisper if:
- You prefer free tools
- You need: Open source
- You value: Local deployment
Choose AssemblyAI if:
- You prefer a freemium model
- You need: Speech-to-text
- You value: Speaker diarization