Distil-Whisper Review

What we know about Distil-Whisper

This is our verified profile of Distil-Whisper, a speech-to-text apis platform - distilled Whisper: near-Whisper accuracy at a fraction of the size and up to 6x the speed, English-only, MIT-licensed. Every fact about Distil-Whisper below carries the source it came from and the day we checked it.

Distil-Whisper does not publish a public per-minute rate we have been able to verify, so the price figure here stays blank until we can confirm one. We would rather show nothing than a guessed number; if you have a current Distil-Whisper quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, Distil-Whisper covers word-level timestamps and self-host / on-prem option, and does not offer language auto-detection and speech translation. Each of those is verified against Distil-Whisper's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

Placed against the 43 speech-to-text tools we track, Distil-Whisper's strongest showing is the 43rd-widest language coverage - a spread worth weighing against your own priorities.

In total we track 14 verified facts for Distil-Whisper today, each linking the primary source it came from so you can check our work - and vendor claims we have not measured ourselves are labeled as such on the Distil-Whisper fact sheet below.

Reviewed by vsref Editorial·facts verified Jul 20, 2026·Methodology →