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.
This is using CPUs: https://modal-labs--whisper-pod-transcriber-fastapi-app.moda....
Transcribes a 1hr podcast in 1min for ~3-5cents.
From their page on Whisper: https://www.banana.dev/deploy-whisper