R1 1776 vs Whisper

Perplexity vs OpenAI — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.

	R1 1776	Whisper
Intelligence index	95.4	—
Developer	Perplexity	OpenAI
Type	LLM	Audio
Access	—	Open weights
Context window	—	—
Input price	$0.00 / 1M	—
Output price	$0.00 / 1M	—
Speed	—	—
Released	February 18, 2025	September 21, 2022
Parameters	—	1.5B (large-v3)
Input modalities	—	Audio
Output modalities	—	Text

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