Whisper AI VPS For Self Hosted Transcription

Whisper ships in multiple sizes: tiny, base, small, medium, large, and large v3. The large variants offer the best accuracy and need roughly 10GB VRAM for fast GPU inference or 12GB to 16GB RAM for CPU only operation. AnubizHost plans cover both modes with GPU VPS tiers featuring RTX 4090 or A5000 cards, plus high RAM CPU only tiers.

Faster whisper is a re implementation using CTranslate2 that runs significantly faster than the reference implementation on the same hardware, with the same accuracy. WhisperX adds word level timestamps and speaker diarization. All install cleanly on AnubizHost templates without platform restrictions.

Audio files vary widely in size. An hour of 16kHz mono speech is roughly 100MB in WAV or 10MB in compressed formats. AnubizHost NVMe storage from 200GB to 4TB handles substantial audio libraries. For pipeline use cases that pull audio from external sources, 1Gbps to 10Gbps uplinks keep the download fast.

Model weights for Whisper large v3 are around 3GB. Caching them on NVMe means model load takes seconds, not minutes. For batch transcription workloads this is a meaningful throughput difference.

Audio often contains the most sensitive content of all: interviews, internal meetings, customer calls, voice memos, confidential dictation. Sending that to a third party transcription API exposes the same data you would protect at every other layer. Self hosting Whisper on AnubizHost keeps the audio on hardware you fully control.

Combined with offshore jurisdictions, no KYC at signup, and crypto only billing, this is the strongest privacy posture available for audio transcription. Many customers use it for journalism, legal work, medical dictation, and confidential corporate transcription where SaaS providers are not an option.