Fine-tune Whisper Model

Welcome to our comprehensive guide for fine-tuning Whisper models! This guide provides a detailed walkthrough to help you launch, track, and understand the billing process associated with fine-tuning Whisper on the MonsterAPI Platform.

Demo Colab Notebooks with Python Client

Service NameColab Notebook
Whisper FinetuningOpen In Colab

Follow this guide to initiate a Whisper fine-tuning job. It covers everything from opening the fine-tuning portal, creating a new job, selecting a model and dataset, to submitting the job.

Supported Models for Finetuning

ModelModelModel
OpenAI/whisper-large-v3OpenAI/whisper-largeOpenAI/whisper-base
OpenAI/whisper-tinyOpenAI/whisper-small.enOpenAI/whisper-tiny.en
OpenAI/whisper-mediumOpenAI/whisper-smallOpenAI/whisper-medium.en
OpenAI/whisper-large-v2OpenAI/whisper-base.endistil-whisper/distil-small.en
distil-whisper/distil-medium.endistil-whisper/distil-large-v2

Choose an appropriate dataset from Hugging Face. Ensure that audio datasets include a column for audio files and a corresponding text column. If the dataset is private, provide your Hugging Face "Read Key" for access. For uploading fine-tuning content, include your Hugging Face "Write Key."


After launching your fine-tuning job, monitor its progress using this guide. Learn about job stages, view logs, track metrics with Weights & Biases (if credentials are provided), and download your fine-tuned model upon completion.


Understand the costs associated with fine-tuning jobs. This guide covers job billing, per-minute costs, handling credit depletion, and maintaining an active payment method and subscription plan.

For further questions or assistance, contact us at MonsterAPI Support.