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Find the right leaderboard

Pick the kind of model, the task and your computer or budget. The leaderboard for that choice appears below the chart, and every leaderboard is listed after it.

178 models · scores combine 86 benchmarks · updated how it works · find a leaderboard · benchmark your machine
task[all tasks][long-form transcription][multilingual transcription]
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set[all sets][Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026) · 176][LibriSpeech test-clean WER · 2]

Filter the model list while keeping overall scores. Models without a shared score scale are not yet calibrated; select a set to see its own scores.

Detect your exact chip or graphics card:

curl -G whatmodel.sh/stt -d max=0 --data-urlencode "mac=$(sysctl -n hw.memsize machdep.cpu.brand_string)"Mac

curl -G whatmodel.sh/stt -d max=0 --data-urlencode "ram=$(awk '/MemT/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo)" --data-urlencode "nv=$(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,memory.total --format=csv,noheader 2>/dev/null)"Linux

curl.exe -G whatmodel.sh/stt -d max=0 --data-urlencode "ram=$((gcim Win32_ComputerSystem).TotalPhysicalMemory)" --data-urlencode "nv=$(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,memory.total --format=csv,noheader 2>$null)"Windows

$ terminal

detecting your OS…

Run curl whatmodel.sh/sttto get this list in your terminal (add &format=json for agents).

ram[8][16][24][32][48][64][96][128][192][256]GB
gpu[apple silicon][graphics card][none]
price[local][$0.001][$0.002][$0.005][$0.01][any]max per audio min

detecting your OS…

Score vs API price

$ your leaderboard

All models with these filters ›

  1. Muse Voice Transcribe 1.0 71
  2. Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 70
  3. Saarika v2.5 70
  4. Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime 70
  5. Linden 1 (Agent STT) 69

open this leaderboard ›

$ every leaderboard

By task

taskany computer16GB Mac32GB Mac64GB Mac16GB graphics card32GB graphics card64GB graphics card
long-form transcriptionall · localall · localall · localall · localall · localall · localall · local
multilingual transcriptionall · localall · localall · localall · localall · localall · localall · local

all: every model, including APIs · local: only models you can download and run

By computer

Mac8GB · 16GB · 24GB · 32GB · 48GB · 64GB · 96GB · 128GB · 192GB · 256GB
Mac, run locally8GB · 16GB · 24GB · 32GB · 48GB · 64GB · 96GB · 128GB · 192GB · 256GB
PC without a graphics card8GB · 16GB · 24GB · 32GB · 48GB · 64GB · 96GB · 128GB · 192GB · 256GB
PC without a graphics card, run locally8GB · 16GB · 24GB · 32GB · 48GB · 64GB · 96GB · 128GB · 192GB · 256GB
Graphics card1GB · 2GB · 4GB · 8GB · 12GB · 16GB · 24GB · 32GB · 48GB · 64GB · 80GB · 96GB · 128GB · 160GB
Graphics card, run locally1GB · 2GB · 4GB · 8GB · 12GB · 16GB · 24GB · 32GB · 48GB · 64GB · 80GB · 96GB · 128GB · 160GB

By budget

run locally · under $0.001 per minute of audio · under $0.002 per minute of audio · under $0.005 per minute of audio · under $0.01 per minute of audio