What are the best alternatives to Whisper?

The top alternatives to Whisper are Pipecat, LiveKit Agents, Whisper Large v3, ranked by real usage data on Unfragile.

Are there free alternatives to Whisper?

Yes, 18 free alternatives to Whisper exist, including Pipecat, LiveKit Agents, Whisper Large v3.

20 alternatives ranked by real usage data. Whisper scores 19/100 — 20 tools score higher.

OriginalWhisper

Robust speech recognition via large-scale weak supervision. [#opensource](https://github.com/openai/whisper)

20 alternatives

18 free options

20 score higher

Open-source realtime voice-agent framework — composable STT/LLM/TTS pipelines, every provider, WebRTC.