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It runs OpenAI's Whisper Large v3 and Whisper Large v3 Turbo on OpenAI-compatible transcription and translation endpoints, for uploaded files or audio URLs, with a half-price batch mode.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq-speech-to-text.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/groq-speech-to-text.json", "repo": "https://github.com/groq/groq-python", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under the Groq Services Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 and the Whisper weights are published by OpenAI on Hugging Face", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.groq.com/openai/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "groq" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "groq-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve bearer key from the GroqCloud console, created inside a project. Projects carry their own rate limits per model, usage data and request logs (https://console.groq.com/docs/projects).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "$0.04 per audio hour for Whisper Large v3 Turbo and $0.111 for Whisper Large v3, with a 10-second minimum a request and 50% off through the Batch API (https://console.groq.com/docs/models). The free plan needs no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. The Developer plan is postpaid by card, US bank account or SEPA debit.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the speech-to-text guide, the API reference or the billing pages (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 621, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text", "llmsTxt": "https://console.groq.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.batch", "speech.languages" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "fast", "free-tier", "no-card", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "batch", "openai-compatible" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-26", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.8, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 113, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 40, "reliability": 90, "schema": 58, "security": 79, "transparency": 85 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 90, "points": 18, "reason": "Hosted reading. The status page at groqstatus.com (incident.io) lists `whisper-large-v3` and `whisper-large-v3-turbo` as separate production components (20). On 8 October 2026 it showed both at 100% uptime for July to October 2026 and no open incident, and its feed held one item, a planned maintenance for another model on 9 October (30). The rate limits page gives numbers for both models, 20 requests a minute, 2,000 a day, 7,200 audio seconds an hour and 28,800 a day on the free plan, and the models page gives 300 requests a minute and 200,000 audio seconds an hour (v3) and 400 and 400,000 (Turbo) on the Developer plan (15). A 429 carries `retry-after`, the security onboarding page says to back off exponentially on 429 and 5xx, and transcription is a stateless call (15). The enterprise Performance Tier's 99.9% availability SLA names three language models and neither Whisper model, so no SLA was found for this product (0). Both models are listed as production models (10)." }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes." }, { "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 58, "points": 9.43, "reason": "Model reading. No OpenAPI document was found in the docs, and the Python SDK's `.stats.yml` carries an endpoint count with no specification URL (0). llms.txt at console.groq.com with Markdown twins of the guide, model cards and reference (10). The guide says which model to pick for accuracy or price, that translation is English only and that the `prompt` steers style within 224 tokens, and it explains the `verbose_json` quality fields (15 of 20). The reference lists allowed values for `response_format` and `timestamp_granularities[]` and marks `model` as required, while `language` and `url` are plain strings (11 of 15). curl, Python and JavaScript examples for both endpoints and a shared errors page with a typed error object. The Batch page's sample still names `distil-whisper-large-v3-en`, shut down on 23 August 2025 (12 of 15). The docs changelog is dated, its newest entry is 18 April and no entry in it concerns speech-to-text (10 of 15)." }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 75, "points": 12.19, "reason": "API reading, as for the other speech-to-text listings. The default response is the text alone, `text` returns a bare string, and segments and word timestamps come only with `verbose_json`. `srt` and `vtt` are listed as unsupported (18 of 25). There is no transcript store to page through. Volume goes through the Batch API by `url`, and a file over 25 MB (free) or 100 MB (Developer) has to be chunked by the caller (12 of 20). The errors page gives 13 status codes with a recovery line each and an error object of `message` and `type`, with no machine-readable code field (15 of 20). The call is stateless and safe to retry, and the SDKs retry connection errors, 408, 409, 429 and 5xx by default. No idempotency key exists or is needed (15 of 20). `model` and one of `file` or `url` are the only required fields, with official Python and TypeScript SDKs and OpenAI SDK compatibility (15)." }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 79, "points": 13.83, "reason": "Model reading, scored like the GroqCloud listing. Bearer keys belong to one project, each project has its own rate limits per model, and the security onboarding page covers rotation and immediate revocation. No way to limit a key to the audio endpoints was found (26 of 30). The services agreement, last modified 22 June 2026, says Groq may not use inputs or outputs for training or fine-tuning unless the customer grants permission (20). Inputs and outputs are not retained by default, logs kept for reliability or abuse last up to 30 days, and the data page lists both audio endpoints as eligible for zero data retention, a setting in Data Controls (15). Usage data and request logs per project and a read-only Reader role. No audit log of administrative actions was found (10 of 15). security.txt on groq.com holds a Contact line only, with no expiry date. The DPA commits to SOC 2 Type II audits, and the trust centre at trust.groq.com is drawn by script and was not read (8 of 20)." }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 40, "points": 5, "reason": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). $0.04 an audio hour for Whisper Large v3 Turbo and $0.111 for Whisper Large v3 on the models page and model cards, read without a login (20). The free plan needs no card and includes both Whisper models at its own rate limits (20). A person signs up in the console in a browser (0)." }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 68, "points": 5.95, "reason": "Model reading, as for the GroqCloud listing. No dated change to speech-to-text was found in 2026. The newest dated release is the Python SDK 1.7.0, uploaded to PyPI on 26 August 2026, 43 days before the check (20 of 30). The deprecations page promises an email and a named replacement and states no minimum notice. The one speech-to-text retirement on it is `distil-whisper-large-v3-en` on 23 August 2025 (4 of 12). Neither Whisper model was retired or renamed in the last 90 days (8 of 8). A dated docs changelog with a feed exists, its newest entry is 18 April and none of its entries concern audio (8 of 15). The Python SDK repository had 3 open issues on 8 October. Replies were not sampled (5 of 10). Official `groq` 1.7.0 on PyPI and `groq-sdk` 1.6.0 on npm (15). CI, release automation and lock-file vulnerability fixes in 1.7.0 (8 of 10)." }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 85, "points": 7.44, "note": "editorial 72, provenance 98", "reason": "The hosted service is closed under the Groq Services Agreement. Both models are OpenAI's published Whisper weights, linked from each model card, served with Groq's own quantisation, and the SDKs are Apache-2.0 (20 of 30). The data page, the services agreement and the DPA agree on retention and on the training ban. The agreement limits zero retention to 'Eligible Customers' while the data page says all customers may enable it, and the privacy policy effective 12 November 2025 says it does not cover customer data sent to GroqCloud (26 of 30). A deprecations page with dated history and replacements, with no minimum notice period (14 of 20). Customer data is kept in Google Cloud storage in the United States, and the DPA gives 15 days' notice of sub-processor changes to subscribers. The sub-processor list is in the trust centre we could not read (12 of 20)." } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-10-08", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "API reading, as for the other speech-to-text listings. The default response is the text alone, `text` returns a bare string, and segments and word timestamps come only with `verbose_json`. `srt` and `vtt` are listed as unsupported (18 of 25). There is no transcript store to page through. Volume goes through the Batch API by `url`, and a file over 25 MB (free) or 100 MB (Developer) has to be chunked by the caller (12 of 20). The errors page gives 13 status codes with a recovery line each and an error object of `message` and `type`, with no machine-readable code field (15 of 20). The call is stateless and safe to retry, and the SDKs retry connection errors, 408, 409, 429 and 5xx by default. No idempotency key exists or is needed (15 of 20). `model` and one of `file` or `url` are the only required fields, with official Python and TypeScript SDKs and OpenAI SDK compatibility (15).", "maintenance": "Model reading, as for the GroqCloud listing. No dated change to speech-to-text was found in 2026. The newest dated release is the Python SDK 1.7.0, uploaded to PyPI on 26 August 2026, 43 days before the check (20 of 30). The deprecations page promises an email and a named replacement and states no minimum notice. The one speech-to-text retirement on it is `distil-whisper-large-v3-en` on 23 August 2025 (4 of 12). Neither Whisper model was retired or renamed in the last 90 days (8 of 8). A dated docs changelog with a feed exists, its newest entry is 18 April and none of its entries concern audio (8 of 15). The Python SDK repository had 3 open issues on 8 October. Replies were not sampled (5 of 10). Official `groq` 1.7.0 on PyPI and `groq-sdk` 1.6.0 on npm (15). CI, release automation and lock-file vulnerability fixes in 1.7.0 (8 of 10).", "payments": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). $0.04 an audio hour for Whisper Large v3 Turbo and $0.111 for Whisper Large v3 on the models page and model cards, read without a login (20). The free plan needs no card and includes both Whisper models at its own rate limits (20). A person signs up in the console in a browser (0).", "reliability": "Hosted reading. The status page at groqstatus.com (incident.io) lists `whisper-large-v3` and `whisper-large-v3-turbo` as separate production components (20). On 8 October 2026 it showed both at 100% uptime for July to October 2026 and no open incident, and its feed held one item, a planned maintenance for another model on 9 October (30). The rate limits page gives numbers for both models, 20 requests a minute, 2,000 a day, 7,200 audio seconds an hour and 28,800 a day on the free plan, and the models page gives 300 requests a minute and 200,000 audio seconds an hour (v3) and 400 and 400,000 (Turbo) on the Developer plan (15). A 429 carries `retry-after`, the security onboarding page says to back off exponentially on 429 and 5xx, and transcription is a stateless call (15). The enterprise Performance Tier's 99.9% availability SLA names three language models and neither Whisper model, so no SLA was found for this product (0). Both models are listed as production models (10).", "schema": "Model reading. No OpenAPI document was found in the docs, and the Python SDK's `.stats.yml` carries an endpoint count with no specification URL (0). llms.txt at console.groq.com with Markdown twins of the guide, model cards and reference (10). The guide says which model to pick for accuracy or price, that translation is English only and that the `prompt` steers style within 224 tokens, and it explains the `verbose_json` quality fields (15 of 20). The reference lists allowed values for `response_format` and `timestamp_granularities[]` and marks `model` as required, while `language` and `url` are plain strings (11 of 15). curl, Python and JavaScript examples for both endpoints and a shared errors page with a typed error object. The Batch page's sample still names `distil-whisper-large-v3-en`, shut down on 23 August 2025 (12 of 15). The docs changelog is dated, its newest entry is 18 April and no entry in it concerns speech-to-text (10 of 15).", "security": "Model reading, scored like the GroqCloud listing. Bearer keys belong to one project, each project has its own rate limits per model, and the security onboarding page covers rotation and immediate revocation. No way to limit a key to the audio endpoints was found (26 of 30). The services agreement, last modified 22 June 2026, says Groq may not use inputs or outputs for training or fine-tuning unless the customer grants permission (20). Inputs and outputs are not retained by default, logs kept for reliability or abuse last up to 30 days, and the data page lists both audio endpoints as eligible for zero data retention, a setting in Data Controls (15). Usage data and request logs per project and a read-only Reader role. No audit log of administrative actions was found (10 of 15). security.txt on groq.com holds a Contact line only, with no expiry date. The DPA commits to SOC 2 Type II audits, and the trust centre at trust.groq.com is drawn by script and was not read (8 of 20).", "transparency": "The hosted service is closed under the Groq Services Agreement. Both models are OpenAI's published Whisper weights, linked from each model card, served with Groq's own quantisation, and the SDKs are Apache-2.0 (20 of 30). The data page, the services agreement and the DPA agree on retention and on the training ban. The agreement limits zero retention to 'Eligible Customers' while the data page says all customers may enable it, and the privacy policy effective 12 November 2025 says it does not cover customer data sent to GroqCloud (26 of 30). A deprecations page with dated history and replacements, with no minimum notice period (14 of 20). Customer data is kept in Google Cloud storage in the United States, and the DPA gives 15 days' notice of sub-processor changes to subscribers. The sub-processor list is in the trust centre we could not read (12 of 20)." }, "sources": [ { "what": "speech-to-text guide", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "API reference, audio section", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/api-reference", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "Whisper Large v3 model card and price", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/model/whisper-large-v3", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "Whisper Large v3 Turbo model card and price", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/model/whisper-large-v3-turbo", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "models page, prices and Developer plan limits", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/models", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "rate limits", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "error codes", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/errors", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "Batch API", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/batch", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "OpenAI compatibility and unsupported parameters", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/openai", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "data retention and zero data retention", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/your-data", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "projects, keys and logs", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/projects", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "security onboarding", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/production-readiness/security-onboarding", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "Performance Tier and SLA", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/performance-tier", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "deprecations", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "changelog", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/changelog", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "billing FAQs", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/billing-faqs", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "Groq Services Agreement", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/legal/services-agreement", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "Data Processing Addendum", "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/legal/customer-data-processing-addendum", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "privacy policy", "url": "https://groq.com/privacy-policy", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "status page", "url": "https://groqstatus.com", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "status feed", "url": "https://groqstatus.com/feed.rss", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "security.txt", "url": "https://groq.com/.well-known/security.txt", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "llms.txt", "url": "https://console.groq.com/llms.txt", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "Python SDK releases", "url": "https://pypi.org/pypi/groq/json", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "TypeScript SDK latest version", "url": "https://registry.npmjs.org/groq-sdk/latest", "seen": "2026-10-08" }, { "what": "Python SDK repository", "url": "https://github.com/groq/groq-python", "seen": "2026-10-08" } ], "openQuestions": [ "unchecked: trust.groq.com is drawn by script, so certifications, any bug bounty and the sub-processor list were not read", "unchecked: groq.com/pricing is drawn by script. Prices come from the models page and the model cards, which agree", "unchecked: the status page's incident list before July 2026. Only the page as served and its linked feed were read, not the page's internal data feed", "unchecked: the groq.com registration date, taken from the 26 September check of the GroqCloud listing", "unchecked: replies on the SDK issue trackers", "The privacy policy says it does not apply to customer data processed through GroqCloud, which the services agreement and DPA govern. `provenance.privacy` points at it as on the GroqCloud listing, and a reader may prefer the DPA", "security.txt has a Contact line and no Expires field. It is recorded as valid, as on the GroqCloud listing", "The services agreement limits zero retention to 'Eligible Customers' while the data page says all customers may enable it", "The guide gives word error rates of 10.3% and 12%, and the Whisper Large v3 model card gives 8.4%, 10.0% and 11.0% by test type. None is our measurement", "The model cards list live captioning and realtime uses, and no streaming endpoint is documented. No deduction was taken because the guide itself makes no streaming claim", "The services agreement bars using the service to develop products that compete with it. No benchmarking clause was found", "The changelog's two newest entries carry no year. They follow 1 December 2025 and are read as 2026" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Whisper Large v3 Turbo costs $0.04 an audio hour and Whisper Large v3 $0.111, with a no-card free plan and zero data retention as a self-serve setting. There is no streaming endpoint, no diarisation and no subtitle output, and uploads stop at 25 MB on the free plan and 100 MB on the Developer plan.", "bestFor": "Suited to cheap, fast transcription of recorded files in many languages, and to agents that already hold a Groq key or use an OpenAI-compatible client.", "strengths": [ "Published prices of $0.04 an audio hour for Whisper Large v3 Turbo and $0.111 for Whisper Large v3, with 50% off through the Batch API", "Free plan with no card at 20 requests a minute, 2,000 a day and 7,200 audio seconds an hour on both models", "Inputs and outputs are not retained by default, and zero data retention is a console setting that covers both audio endpoints", "The status page lists each Whisper model as its own component, both at 100% uptime for July to October 2026", "OpenAI-compatible request shape, with `model` and a `file` or `url` as the only required fields" ], "weaknesses": [ "No streaming or realtime endpoint and no diarisation in the reviewed documentation", "Uploads are capped at 25 MB on the free plan and 100 MB on the Developer plan, so long recordings need client-side chunking", "`srt` and `vtt` response formats are not supported, and Whisper Large v3 Turbo cannot translate", "No OpenAPI document was found, and the docs changelog's newest entry is dated 18 April", "The 99.9% availability SLA of the enterprise Performance Tier names three language models and neither Whisper model" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `whisper-large-v3-turbo` for transcription and `whisper-large-v3` for translation to English. The translations endpoint does not accept Turbo.", "Pass `url` instead of `file` for audio over 25 MB, and split anything over the plan's size limit into overlapping chunks before sending.", "Set `response_format` to `verbose_json` before asking for `timestamp_granularities[]`. Word timestamps add latency, segment timestamps do not.", "Every request is billed as at least 10 seconds of audio, so join very short clips where the task allows.", "Read `retry-after` on a 429 and back off. Audio limits count seconds an hour and a day as well as requests." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 40, "reliability": 90, "schema": 58, "security": 79, "transparency": 72 }, "provenanceScore": 98 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install groq # or: npm install --save groq-sdk", "http": "curl https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/audio/transcriptions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $GROQ_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: multipart/form-data\" \\\n -F file=\"@./sample_audio.m4a\" \\\n -F model=\"whisper-large-v3\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/groq-speech-to-text" }, "sameCompany": [ "groq" ], "notable": [ "Two production models, `whisper-large-v3` and `whisper-large-v3-turbo`, on `POST /openai/v1/audio/transcriptions`. `POST /openai/v1/audio/translations` (audio to English text) runs on `whisper-large-v3` only (https://console.groq.com/docs/speech-to-text)", "Audio comes as a multipart `file` or a `url`. Uploads are limited to 25 MB on the free plan and 100 MB on the Developer plan, and every request is billed as at least 10 seconds", "Response formats are `json`, `text` and `verbose_json`. `srt` and `vtt` are listed as unsupported (https://console.groq.com/docs/openai)", "The Batch API accepts both audio endpoints at 50% off, by `url` only, with a processing window of 24 hours to 7 days (https://console.groq.com/docs/batch)", "Groq states a speed factor of 189 for Whisper Large v3 and 216 for Turbo, and word error rates of 10.3% and 12%. These are vendor figures, not our measurements", "The data page lists `/openai/v1/audio/transcriptions` and `/openai/v1/audio/translations` as eligible for zero data retention (https://console.groq.com/docs/your-data)", "`distil-whisper-large-v3-en` was shut down on 23 August 2025 in favour of `whisper-large-v3-turbo`, the only speech-to-text retirement on the deprecations page (https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations)", "The same API, key, terms and status page as the GroqCloud listing (`groq`), which covers the language models" ], "area": "voice", "details": [ { "label": "Models", "value": "`whisper-large-v3-turbo` (transcription) and `whisper-large-v3` (transcription and translation to English)" }, { "label": "Languages", "value": "Vendor says 99+ languages, with an optional ISO-639-1 `language` hint" }, { "label": "Max audio", "value": "25 MB a file on the free plan, 100 MB on the Developer plan. Longer audio is chunked by the caller" }, { "label": "Input", "value": "Multipart `file` or a `url`, in flac, mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, ogg, wav or webm. Only the first audio track is read" }, { "label": "Output", "value": "`json`, `text` or `verbose_json` with segment or word timestamps. No `srt` or `vtt`" }, { "label": "Streaming", "value": "None found. One request returns the whole transcript" }, { "label": "Diarisation", "value": "None found" }, { "label": "Rate limits", "value": "Free plan 20 requests a minute, 2,000 a day, 7,200 audio seconds an hour and 28,800 a day. 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