# List of OpenAI Whisper Checkpoints Variants

> Source: <https://blog.sparsh.dev/list-openai-whisper-checkpoints-variants/>
> Published: 2026-06-30 15:07:14+00:00

Official OpenAI Whisper has **12 unique checkpoint files**, but the OpenAI Python package exposes **14 local model names** because `large`

and `turbo`

are aliases for `large-v3`

and `large-v3-turbo`

.

The real confusion comes from aliases, runtimes, and converted formats.

`faster-whisper`

, `CTranslate2`

, `whisper.cpp`

, `ggml`

, `q8`

, `q5`

, `ONNX`

, `Core ML`

, etc. are