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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 | 16.7M requests | +133% |
| 2 | Whisper Large V3 | openai | 9.35M requests | +5% |
| 3 | MAI-Transcribe 2 | microsoft | 7.35M requests | +109% |
| 4 | Scribe v2 | elevenlabs | 2.13M requests | -4% |
| 5 | GPT-4o Mini Transcribe | openai | 881K requests | +3% |
| 6 | GPT Transcribe | openai | 858K requests | +29% |
| 7 | Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 | nvidia | 654K requests | +24% |
| 8 | Grok STT 1.0 | x-ai | 610K requests | +2% |
| 9 | Whisper 1 | openai | 600K requests | -12% |
| 10 | Voxtral Mini Transcribe | mistralai | 513K requests | -8% |
Usage data through
Summary of the transcription Market Share chart above. Share of transcription requests made on OpenRouter in the week beginning Oct 19, 2026, with the change in each author's requests against the week before it. OpenAI leads at 69.2% 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 | 69.2% | +46% |
| 2 | Microsoft | 16.3% | +63% |
| 3 | Elevenlabs | 6.1% | +14% |
| 4 | Nvidia | 1.9% | +25% |
| 5 | Mistral AI | 1.6% | +0% |
| 6 | SpaceXAI | 1.5% | -2% |
| 7 | Qwen | 1.2% | -29% |
| 8 | Deepgram | 0.8% | -1% |
| 9 | 0.8% | -43% | |
| All other authors | 0.7% | -50% |