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Rankings data by OpenRouter is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reuse and republish it with attribution. The Data API docs cover the citation format and JSON access to these datasets.
Rankings data by OpenRouter is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reuse and republish it with attribution. The Data API docs cover the citation format and JSON access to these datasets.
Live transcript generation rankings based on real usage data from millions of people using models through OpenRouter. View all transcription models
Rankings data by OpenRouter is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reuse and republish it with attribution. The Data API docs cover the citation format and JSON access to these datasets.
| Rank | Model | Author | requests | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whisper Large V3 | openai | 8.95M requests | -22% |
| 2 | Whisper Large V3 Turbo | openai | 7.16M requests | +26% |
| 3 | MAI-Transcribe 2 | microsoft | 3.52M requests | -1% |
| 4 | Scribe v2 | elevenlabs | 2.23M requests | -31% |
| 5 | GPT-4o Mini Transcribe | openai | 852K requests | -15% |
| 6 | Whisper 1 | openai | 678K requests | +5% |
| 7 | GPT Transcribe | openai | 665K requests | +39% |
| 8 | Grok STT 1.0 | x-ai | 601K requests | +7% |
| 9 | Qwen3 ASR 1.7B | qwen | 595K requests | +126% |
| 10 | Voxtral Mini Transcribe | mistralai | 555K requests | +82% |
Usage data through
Summary of the transcription Market Share chart above. Share of transcription requests made on OpenRouter in the week beginning Oct 12, 2026, with the change in each author's requests against the week before it. OpenAI leads at 65.2% of the week's requests. Authors the chart groups as others are listed last, so the rows match the series the chart plots.
| Rank | Author | Share of requests | Change in requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | 65.2% | +2% |
| 2 | Microsoft | 13.7% | +25% |
| 3 | Elevenlabs | 7.3% | -29% |
| 4 | Qwen | 2.3% | -18% |
| 5 | Mistral AI | 2.2% | +100% |
| 6 | SpaceXAI | 2.1% | +5% |
| 7 | Nvidia | 2.0% | -13% |
| 8 | 1.9% | +109% | |
| 9 | Deepgram | 1.2% | +24% |
| All other authors | 2.0% | +43% |