OpenAI Whisper API vs Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI vs MacWhisper

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
OpenAI Whisper API
vs
Competitor 1
Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
Competitor 2
MacWhisper
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for OpenAI Whisper API: Google Cloud Speech-to-Text92% Deepgram89% Microsoft Azure AI Speech86% Soniox85% TurboScribe84% ElevenLabs API83% VOMO AI83% Transkriptor83%
Compare
3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool OpenAI Whisper API
platform.openai.com
OpenAI Whisper API is the speech-to-text service developers call to convert recorded audio into text.
Remove
Competitor Universal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI
assemblyai.com
Speech-to-text API built for accuracy at scale
Make main Remove
Competitor MacWhisper
goodsnooze.gumroad.com
MacWhisper is a transcription app for the Mac that converts audio files into text using OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model.
Make main Remove
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
—
457.8Kvisits/mo
—
MoM change
—
▼ 12.0%
—
6-month growth
—
-16.3%
—
Global rank web
—
#87,404
—
Avg. last 3 months
—
518.4K
—
Bounce rate lower is better
—
37%
—
Pages / visit
—
4.0
—
Visit duration
—
3m 12s
—
Traffic sources
—
● Direct 91% · ● Referral 8%
—
OpenAI Whisper APIUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAIMacWhisper
0157.2K314.4K471.5K628.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 568.9KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 565KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 595.5KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 506.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 547.2KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 590.1KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 628.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 577KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 520.4KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 457.8K100K1MUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 568.9KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 565KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 595.5KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 506.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 547.2KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 590.1KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 628.7KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 577KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 520.4KUniversal-3 Pro by AssemblyAI · 457.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
—
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
—
Free tier
€65per month · free tier available
Free tier
–
Free trial
–
–
API access
–
–
Plans
gpt-transcribe Customgpt-4o-transcribe Customgpt-4o-mini-transcribe Customgpt-realtime-whisper Custom
Free Trial FreePay-as-you-go Universal-2 $0.15/moPay-as-you-go Universal-3.5 Pro $0.21/mo
MacWhisper Free FreeMacWhisper Pro €655 licenses (Pro) €26910 licenses (Pro) €490+2 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Audio
Audio
AudioWeb pagesVideo
Output
Text
Text
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Development & CodeVoice & SpeechAI APIAI Transcription
Development & CodeVoice & SpeechAI APIAI Transcription
Voice & SpeechAI Transcription
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
8
3
11
Transcription
Podcast transcription
APIs
–
Speech recognition
–
Meeting transcription
–
Audio video transcription
–
–
On mac
–
–
Video subtitles
–
–
Academic transcription
–
–
Audio translation
–
–
Call transcriptions
–
–
Developer tools
–
–
Local AI
–
–
Speaker matching
–
–
Voice memos
–
–
Community on aitoolstime
Rating
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
Upvotes
▲ 0
▲ 0
▲ 0
Saves
0
0
0
Reviews
0
0
0
Prompts
0
0
0
Verified listing
–
–
–

Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.