SYSTRAN

license

MIT(OSI)

source

public

core features withheld

no

faster-whisper is MIT-licensed and the published repository is the whole library; nothing is sold alongside it or withheld. SYSTRAN publishes no statement about commercial offerings, so that reading comes from the repository alone.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/HEAD/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-27

  LICENSE body: "MIT License" / "Copyright (c) 2023 SYSTRAN".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README describes a pip-installable library and its benchmarks; it names no paid tier, license key or enterprise edition.

PyPI downloads of faster-whisper. Installs pulled in as a dependency of other tools count the same as direct ones.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/faster-whisper/recent recorded 2026-09-27

  "last_month":8271086 for faster-whisper.

A fast runtime, but for one model family and one task, and it trains nothing.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  "This implementation is up to 4 times faster than [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) for the same accuracy while using less memory."