Do I understand correctly banana pricing is that it costs $1.87 per hour, so the hour of audio with large model costs you about $1? Thats probably a bit too expensive compared to cloud providers.

> 1 hour of audio processing with Whisper on Banana costs <30 cents.

From their page on Whisper: https://www.banana.dev/deploy-whisper

Thats probably medium model

Whisper can be run on CPUs and produce high-quality transcripts. Doing it on CPU is like a 10th the price and more horizontally scalable.

This is using CPUs: https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda....

Transcribes a 1hr podcast in 1min for ~3-5cents.