ColossalAI

by HPC-AI Tech

Open distributed framework — supports Whisper LoRA fine-tunes.

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TL;DR

Best for cheap large-model training across multi-GPU nodes. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
Apache-2.0
Stars
★ 41.4k
Last push
2026-07-13
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

Distributed-training stack with 3D-parallel + ZeRO. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Cheap large-model training across multi-GPU nodes.
Watch out for: Less mature than DeepSpeed for inference.

Install / use

pip install colossalai

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported99
HIPAA eligibleNo

Links

GitHub repo ↗

ColossalAI vs Whipscribe

FeatureColossalAIWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages9999
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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