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Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 is a closed-weights speech-to-text model from Mistral, released February 2026. Licence: proprietary.

59.3±2.8#38 of 162 speech-to-text modelsfrom 6 benchmark results across 3 sources

Score within the Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026) comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The speech-to-text models ranked either side of Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2, out of 176 with a score, then more from Mistral.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
44Fun-ASR-Flash Alibaba59±4comparison only
45Granite Speech 3.3 8B IBM59±5local~21GB2025-06
46Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 Mistral59±3api $0.0030/audio min2026-02
47Avalon v1 (en) Aqua Voice59±5comparison only2025-08
48GPT-Realtime-Whisper OpenAI59±3api $0.017/audio min2026-05
more from Mistral
32Voxtral Small 24B (2507) Mistral61±2api $0.0040/audio min +local~59GB2025-07
52Voxtral Mini 3B (2507) Mistral58±1api $0.0010/audio min +local~12GB2025-07
96Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime (2602) Mistral53±2api $0.0060/audio min +local~3.2GB2026-02

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$ what it's good at

long-form transcription█·····█···██ #2 of 4 * · 17% of its score · 1 test

Trails Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime (2602) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Voxtral report · English long-form 4-set WER lab7.1% ✎▄··█·······▄ beats 3/3avg 11%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 17%typical
multilingual transcription▂··▃▄█▆▅▄▂·▂ #27 of 36 * · 33% of its score · 2 tests

Trails Omnilingual ASR CTC 1B v2, Omnilingual ASR CTC 7B v2, SeamlessM4T v2 Large here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Voxtral report · Common Voice 12-language error rate lab8.1% ✎█··█·······█ beats 2/2avg 18%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 17%small run
Voxtral report · FLEURS 13-language error rate lab5.9% ✎█·█········█ beats 2/2avg 11%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16%small run
other tests3 not in a task · 47% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Dutch ASR Leaderboard · average WER (FLEURS, VoxPopuli, MLS nl)8.2% ✎▄··▄█···█··▄ beats 5/6avg 16%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20%typical
Voxtral report · English short-form 10-set WER lab7.3% ✎█··█·█·····█ beats 3/3avg 12%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 18%typical
koedesk FLEURS first-200 · 9-language headline error mean5.2% ✎▄·····▄··▄█▄ beats 1/5avg 7.9%▇▇▇▇ 9.3%typical

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · Mistral AI · $0.0030/audio min · docs.mistral.ai ↗ · price sourceUSD per input audio minute. Exact endpoint mistral/voxtral-mini-2602. Product: Audio transcription. API model: voxtral-mini-2602. Settings: endpoint=/v1/audio/transcriptions, streaming=no. Price basis: published rate. Currency: USD.

$ how the score was worked out · Voxtral Realtime 68%, Dutch ASR Leaderboard (tvosch… 20%, koedesk STT Bench v1 (Track A… 9%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Voxtral Realtime · lab-reported4▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 68%CC BY 4.0
Dutch ASR Leaderboard (tvosch) · committed result files1▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20%Apache-2.0
koedesk STT Bench v1 (Track A, FLEURS first-200)1▇▇▇ 9%CC BY 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 3%
weighted average= 59.3

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