Wave Subs vs Whisper

Wave Subs plans

• FreeFree

Whisper plans

• Self-hosted WhisperFree
• Whisper (open-source code and model weights)Free
• Whisper API$0.01 a month

Pick Wave Subs if…

Wave Subs suits people who want to create or translate subtitles locally on macOS or Windows. It may be useful for batch work, offline workflows after model downloads, or translating visible video text on macOS.

Pick Whisper if…

Whisper may suit developers and researchers building speech-processing applications or exploring multilingual transcription and translation. It is also an option for people comfortable installing and running command-line or Python software locally.