Difference between accessing whisper from git or OPENAI Key

[JanmeetIITrpr]

What is the difference if i directly access whisper from it's cloned library rather than open ai api with key. And Why is this free whereas that costs me per token?

[EtienneAb3d]

And Why is this free whereas that costs me per token?

This is simple: if you are using your own Whisper deployment it's your machine cost, while with API access it's using OpenAI CPU/GPU resources. GPU calculation is quite expensive.