Whisper Large v3 vs Llama 5
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare Whisper Large v3 by OpenAI against Llama 5 by Meta across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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Whisper Large v3
Modelo de Pesos AbertosO Whisper Large v3 da OpenAI é um modelo de inteligência artificial com janela de contexto de 448 tokens e preço de API de $0.006/1M na entrada e $0/1M na saída, projetado para programação, raciocínio e automação empresarial.
$0.01 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
448 tokens
36%
Llama 5
Modelo de Pesos AbertosO Llama 5 da Meta é um modelo de inteligência artificial com janela de contexto de 5M tokens e preço de API de $0/1M na entrada e $0/1M na saída, projetado para programação, raciocínio e automação empresarial.
$0.00 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
5M tokens
74%
Principais Diferenças em Resumo
- Llama 5 is 1.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Llama 5 has a larger context window (5M vs 0K tokens).
- Llama 5 is faster at 65 tok/s vs 55 tok/s.
- Llama 5 leads on SWE-bench coding (74.0% vs 36.0%).
| Feature | Whisper Large v3 | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 45 | 94 |
Provider | OpenAI | Meta |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $0.01 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $0.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $0.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 448 tokens~1 A4 pages of text | 5M tokens~7,500 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 0K | 128K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 55 tok/s | 65 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 36% | 74% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 46% | 84% |
Quem vence em cada categoria?
At-a-glance decision frameworkPontuações de Benchmarks Verificadas
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Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
Latência e Tempo de Resposta
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
Simulador Interativo de Custo de Tokens
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Whisper Large v3 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Arquitetura Encoder-decoder speech transformer avançada da OpenAI com contexto de 448 tokens
- Excelente relação custo-benefício ($0.006/1M entrada, $0/1M saída) e baixa latência
- Forte desempenho em benchmarks de código, análise lógica e tarefas multilíngues
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Cargas de trabalho com contexto máximo exigem monitoramento de custos de tokens
- Requer engenharia de prompt adequada para fluxos de trabalho altamente específicos
Llama 5 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Arquitetura Mixture-of-Experts with recursive self-improvement (~600B total, 40-80B active) avançada da Meta com contexto de 5M tokens
- Excelente relação custo-benefício ($0/1M entrada, $0/1M saída) e baixa latência
- Forte desempenho em benchmarks de código, análise lógica e tarefas multilíngues
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Cargas de trabalho com contexto máximo exigem monitoramento de custos de tokens
- Requer engenharia de prompt adequada para fluxos de trabalho altamente específicos
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | Whisper Large v3 | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $0.09 | $0.00 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 3K | 40K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 0K | 20K |
Especificações Técnicas
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Feature | Whisper Large v3 | Llama 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | whisper-large-v3 | meta-llama/Llama-5 |
| API Protocol | OpenAI Responses API & Chat Completions v1 | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI |
| Release Date | 2023-11 | 2026-04 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | 2023 (audio corpus) | January 2026 |
| Architecture | Encoder-decoder speech transformer | Mixture-of-Experts with recursive self-improvement (~600B total, 40-80B active) |
| Parameters | 1.55B | 600B+ total (~40-80B active) |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Flat rate ($0.006/1M in) across full 0K window | Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales) |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Automatic prefix caching at $0/1M (no extra cache-write fee) | Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost) |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | Text-only completion (No GUI action loop) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Prompt-based JSON extraction only | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Native Web Search tool + Hosted Code Interpreter & File Search RAG | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 2 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 4 GB VRAM (Native BF16) | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 372 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 1290 GB VRAM (Native BF16) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | OpenAI Preparedness Framework Audited & System Card Published | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control |
| Input Modalities | audio | text, vision, video, audio |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
Whisper Large v3 vs Llama 5: Respostas Rápidas (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, Whisper Large v3 or Llama 5?
Llama 5 is more intelligent. It scores 94 compared with 45 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
Llama 5 is faster, generating 65 tokens per second compared with 55 tokens per second.
Which model has lower latency?
Whisper Large v3 has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.35s compared with 0.85s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Llama 5 has a larger context window, supporting 5M tokens compared with 448 tokens.
Veredito
Choose Whisper Large v3 for automação corporativa, engenharia de software, agentes autônomos e pipelines de produção com openai, or choose Llama 5 for automação corporativa, engenharia de software, agentes autônomos e pipelines de produção com meta.
Perguntas Frequentes (FAQ)
Which is cheaper: Whisper Large v3 or Llama 5?+
Whisper Large v3 costs $0.006/1M input and $0/1M output tokens, while Llama 5 costs $0/1M input and $0/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: Whisper Large v3 or Llama 5?+
Whisper Large v3 supports 0K tokens whereas Llama 5 supports 5M tokens.
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