Groq (hosted Whisper) Review

What we know about Groq (hosted Whisper)

Groq (hosted Whisper) sits in the speech-to-text apis category, where it is ultra-fast, low-cost hosted Whisper transcription API (no realtime streaming). We keep this Groq (hosted Whisper) profile grounded in primary sources, each fact dated to when we last confirmed it.

Groq (hosted 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 Groq (hosted Whisper) quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, Groq (hosted Whisper) covers language auto-detection, word-level timestamps, custom vocabulary / keyterm boosting, speech translation, soc 2 type ii, and self-host / on-prem option, and does not offer entity detection, sentiment analysis, and summarization endpoint. Each of those is verified against Groq (hosted Whisper)'s own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

For compliance, with Groq (hosted Whisper): SOC 2 Type II is in place. If you are in a regulated space, confirm the current posture with Groq (hosted Whisper) before you commit, since these change plan by plan.

Placed against the 43 speech-to-text tools we track, Groq (hosted Whisper)'s strongest showing is the 12th-widest language coverage - a spread worth weighing against your own priorities.

In total we track 22 verified facts for Groq (hosted 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 Groq (hosted Whisper) fact sheet below.

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