Modal Whisper Demo

Name: Modal Whisper Demo
Author: Modal Labs

by Modal Labs

Hosted browser demo of Whisper running on Modal's serverless GPUs.

TL;DR

Hosted browser demo of Whisper running on Modal's serverless GPUs.

Best for engineers evaluating serverless Whisper deployment with cold-start metrics visible. Pricing: free demo / Modal compute billed.

What it is

Modal Labs maintains a public Whisper demo and example repo showing serverless GPU inference patterns. Useful for engineers evaluating Modal as a Whisper-hosting target.

Best for: Engineers evaluating serverless Whisper deployment with cold-start metrics visible.
Watch out for: Public demo throttled; audio sent to Modal's cloud.

Install / use

open https://modal.com/docs/examples/whisper

Features

Speaker diarization	No
Word-level timestamps	Yes
Streaming / real-time	No
Languages supported	99
HIPAA eligible	No

Modal Whisper Demo vs Whipscribe

Feature	Modal Whisper Demo	Whipscribe
Category	Products	Transcription APIs
Pricing	free demo / Modal compute billed	free beta
Speaker diarization	No	Yes
Word timestamps	Yes	Yes
Streaming	No	No
Languages	99	99
Platforms	Web	Web, API, MCP

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