Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe vs Whisper v3 Turbo on Groq

Up to 4 models, normalised onto the same cost basis and scored through the lens you pick.

	Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Google	Whisper v3 Turbo on Groq Groq
Cost of talking
Per minute	Not conversational	Not conversational
Per hour	—	—
30-min interview	—	—
List price	Plan-basedEstimate	Plan-basedEstimate
Recruitment fit
Overall	89/100	62/100
Verdict	The pick for panel interviews and any non-English hiring — speaker attribution and Greek accuracy are both unmatched here.	Fine for internal notes; not what you want under an interview a hiring decision rests on.
Best for	Panel interviewsMultilingual hiringEvidence-linked interview notes	Internal recruiter notesQuick voice memos
Watch out for	Live and Recorded are different model codes — you cannot swap one for the other Requires a billed key; the free tier 429s under sustained use	Slowest tail latency of the streaming options we measured No speaker attribution
Capabilities
Modalities	audio	audio
Context window	—	—
Variants	Live, Recorded	Turbo
On HumanLike	Coworker, Clippy	Coworker
HumanLike evals
Word error rate (English)	0.06Our eval	—
Word error rate (Greek)	0.03Our eval	—
Text still arriving after speaker stops (EN)	666 msOur eval	1197 msOur eval

Cost per hour assumes 150 wpm and a 40% AI speaking share. Hover a figure for its full derivation.