Kyutai (Moshi / Unmute) vs Whisper API
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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Whisper API
OpenAI's open speech-to-text model; the hosted API retires in 2027
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | All code (MIT/Apache-2.0) and weights (CC-BY 4.0) free to self-host; free web demos at unmute.sh and moshi-chat.kyutai.org | The open-source Whisper model is free to run yourself under the MIT licence; the hosted API is paid |
| Paid from | — | $0.006 a minute for the whisper-1 API (removal scheduled 26 Feb 2027) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | OpenAI |
| Verdict | Kyutai is one of the most useful sources of open voice AI: Moshi for full-duplex conversation, Unmute for giving any text model a voice, and Pocket TTS for fast speech on a CPU, all with permissive code and CC-BY weights... |
The open-source Whisper model is still one of the most useful pieces of speech technology available: free, MIT-licensed, multilingual and runnable offline through projects such as whisper.cpp and faster-whisper. It does... |
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