Is whisper free?

[kevinco26]

Hi! this may be a naive question but I can't seem to figure out the answer.

I see pricing on Openai's website: https://openai.com/pricing
Whisper | $0.006 / minute (rounded to the nearest second)

Then their examples involve using an authorization key in order to send the request.

However I've been using the python pip package and doing a bunch of tests on some audio by using both transcribe() method and the log_mel_spectrogram()

Interestingly I'm able to get results just fine and I'm not setting any openai api key anywhere... How is this working and where does the pricing come in?

[oakieoaktree]

The use of the models / python package as you are describing is free under the license indicated by the github project page (MIT).
Only the use of the hosted solution / service provided by OpenAI via the web API costs money.

[kevinco26]

thanks!

[hissain]

@oakieoaktree does it mean, I can use that model commercially for free by hosting on my own machine?

[Purfview]

@oakieoaktree does it mean, I can use that model commercially for free by hosting on my own machine?

Yes.