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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 Turbo | openai | 26.8M requests | +93% |
| 2 | Whisper Large V3 | openai | 10.8M requests | +10% |
| 3 | MAI-Transcribe 2 | microsoft | 8.22M requests | +18% |
| 4 | Scribe v2 | elevenlabs | 1.32M requests | -38% |
| 5 | GPT-4o Mini Transcribe | openai | 966K requests | +12% |
| 6 | Qwen3 ASR 1.7B | qwen | 880K requests | +151% |
| 7 | GPT Transcribe | openai | 823K requests | +6% |
| 8 | Grok STT 1.0 | x-ai | 690K requests | -8% |
| 9 | Whisper 1 | openai | 650K requests | +10% |
| 10 | Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 | nvidia | 582K requests | -7% |
Usage data through
Summary of the transcription Market Share chart above. Share of transcription requests made on OpenRouter in the week beginning Nov 2, 2026, with the change in each author's requests against the week before it. OpenAI leads at 70.7% 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 | 70.7% | +40% |
| 2 | Microsoft | 17.0% | +48% |
| 3 | Elevenlabs | 2.9% | -31% |
| 4 | Nvidia | 2.1% | +29% |
| 5 | Mistral | 1.7% | -61% |
| 6 | Qwen | 1.6% | +62% |
| 7 | SpaceXAI | 1.4% | +1% |
| 8 | Deepgram | 1.0% | +40% |
| 9 | 0.6% | -11% | |
| All other authors | 1.1% | +80% |