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Fast inference cloud offering hosted Whisper speech-to-text
- Free tier
- Yes
- Per month
- Free – Usage
- MCP
- No
Why it's here
Fast, inexpensive OpenAI-compatible inference with a free tier; its strict free caps are for testing, not launch.
Free tier
Rate-limited free API tier for testing Whisper and TTS without a card
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LLM APIs
#5 of 20Fast, inexpensive OpenAI-compatible inference with a free tier; its strict free caps are for testing, not launch.
| per month | FreeFreeStrict RPM and TPM caps (~30 req/min) | DeveloperUsageFrom $0.05/$0.08 to $0.60/$3.00 per 1M tokens | EnterpriseCustomDedicated LPU capacity, custom models, SLAs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial use | |||
| Tool calling | |||
| OpenAI-compatible | |||
| No data training | |||
| Prod rate limits | |||
| JSON schema | |||
| Prompt caching | |||
| Image input | |||
| Context window | 131072 tokens | 131072 tokens | 131072 tokens |
Audio
#6 of 25Fast, inexpensive speech API with free testing and broad Whisper language coverage; no streaming.
| per month | FreeFreeRate-limited sandbox access | Developer (Pay as you go)Usage$0.04/hr Whisper Turbo, $0.111/hr Large v3, $22/1M chars TTS | EnterpriseCustomDedicated LPU capacity and custom SLAs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial use | |||
| API access | |||
| Voice cloning | |||
| Real-time | |||
| Speech-to-text | |||
| Music generation | |||
| Diarization | |||
| Stems / WAV | |||
| Languages | 99 languages | 99 languages | 99 languages |