1 Muse Voice Transcribe 1.0 Meta 71±3 * api $0.0030/audio min developer.meta.com ↗ 2 Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 xAI 70±3 * api $0.0017/audio min docs.x.ai ↗ 3 Saarika v2.5 Sarvam AI 70±5 * comparison only 4 Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime AssemblyAI 70±3 * api $0.0075/audio min www.assemblyai.com ↗ 5 Linden 1 (Agent STT) Speechmatics 69±3 * api $0.0050/audio min www.speechmatics.com ↗ 6 Soniox v5 Async Soniox 68±5 * api $0.0017/audio min soniox.com ↗ 7 Ink-2 Cartesia 68±3 * api $0.0065/audio min docs.cartesia.ai ↗ 8 Universal-3.5 Pro AssemblyAI 68±3 api $0.0035/audio min www.assemblyai.com ↗ 9 Soniox v5 Real-Time Soniox 67±3 * api $0.0020/audio min soniox.com ↗ 10 Soniox v4 Real-Time Soniox 67±3 * comparison only 11 Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Google 67±6 * api $0.0050/audio min ai.google.dev ↗ 12 Scribe v2 ElevenLabs 66±1 api $0.0037/audio min elevenlabs.io ↗ +9 13 GPT Transcribe OpenAI 64±4 api $0.0045/audio min developers.openai.com ↗ 14 Zoom Scribe v1 Zoom 64±5 * api price unknown developers.zoom.us ↗ 15 Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC NC IBM 64±4 * local ~0.5GB how to run › copy 16 Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) Cohere 63±3 local ~4.1GB how to run › copy 17 Universal-3 Pro AssemblyAI 63±2 comparison only 18 Granite 4.0 1B Speech IBM 62±3 local ~6GB how to run › copy 19 Granite Speech 4.1 2B IBM 62±3 local ~6GB how to run › copy 20 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 Microsoft AI 62±8 * api $0.0060/audio min azure.microsoft.com ↗ 21 Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC IBM 62±4 * local ~1.6GB how to run › copy 22 Fish Audio Transcribe 1 Fish Audio 62±5 api $0.0060/audio min docs.fish.audio ↗ 23 Inworld STT-1 Inworld 62±6 * api $0.0025/audio min docs.inworld.ai ↗ 24 Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR Alibaba 62±4 * † comparison only 25 Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) Cohere 62±2 api $0.0042/audio min +local ~5.5GB fal.ai ↗ 26 Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR IBM 62±4 * local ~2.5GB how to run › copy 27 Nova-3 Deepgram 61±2 api $0.0052/audio min developers.cloudflare.com ↗ +6 28 Canary-Qwen-2.5B NVIDIA 61±2 local ~6.6GB how to run › copy 29 Pulse (STT) Smallest.ai 61±3 * api $0.0040/audio min docs.smallest.ai ↗ 30 Chirp 3 Google 61±2 api price unknown cloud.google.com ↗ +4 31 Scribe v1 ElevenLabs 61±2 comparison only 32 Voxtral Small 24B (2507) Mistral 61±2 api $0.0040/audio min +local ~59GB docs.mistral.ai ↗ +1 33 Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live Google 61±3 * api $0.0090/audio min ai.google.dev ↗ 34 Granite Speech 4.1 2B Plus IBM 61±4 * local ~2.4GB how to run › copy 35 Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 NVIDIA 60±1 local ~1.9GB ~92× how to run › copy +1 36 Tencent Hy-ASR-3.0-preview Tencent 60±4 * comparison only 37 Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B NVIDIA 60±4 * local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 38 Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 xAI 60±5 comparison only 39 Qwen3-ASR-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen) 60±1 api $0.0005/audio min +local ~3.3GB deepinfra.com ↗ +10 40 Canary-1B-Flash NVIDIA 60±2 local ~4.4GB how to run › copy 41 Granite Speech 3.3 2B IBM 60±3 local ~7.7GB how to run › copy 42 Speechmatics Enhanced Speechmatics 60±2 api $0.0067/audio min www.speechmatics.com ↗ 43 Deepgram Nova 2 Deepgram 60±4 api $0.0058/audio min deepgram.com ↗ 44 Fun-ASR-Flash Alibaba 59±4 * † comparison only 45 Granite Speech 3.3 8B IBM 59±5 * local ~21GB how to run › copy 46 Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 Mistral 59±3 api $0.0030/audio min docs.mistral.ai ↗ 47 Avalon v1 (en) Aqua Voice 59±5 * comparison only 48 GPT-Realtime-Whisper OpenAI 59±3 * api $0.017/audio min developers.openai.com ↗ 49 Canary-1B NVIDIA 59±3 local ~5.3GB how to run › copy 50 Parakeet TDT 1.1B NVIDIA 59±2 local ~5.8GB how to run › copy 51 Parakeet Ultra Moondream 59±3 local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 52 Voxtral Mini 3B (2507) Mistral 58±1 api $0.0010/audio min +local ~12GB deepinfra.com ↗ +5 53 Universal-Streaming (English) AssemblyAI 58±3 * api $0.0025/audio min www.assemblyai.com ↗ 54 Parakeet RNNT 1.1B NVIDIA 58±2 local ~5.6GB how to run › copy 55 Chirp 2 Google 58±3 api price unknown cloud.google.com ↗ 56 Canary-1B-v2 NVIDIA 58±1 local ~5.2GB ~18× how to run › copy +2 57 Phi-4-multimodal-instruct Microsoft 58±2 local ~14GB how to run › copy 58 Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B Meta 58±2 local ~19GB how to run › copy 59 Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B v2 Meta 58±3 * local ~19GB how to run › copy 60 Distil-Whisper distil-large-v3.5 Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper) 58±2 local ~2.3GB how to run › copy 61 Whisper large-v3-turbo OpenAI 57±1 api $0.0005/audio min +local ~2.4GB ~18× developers.cloudflare.com ↗ +7 62 Omnilingual ASR LLM 3B Meta 57±2 local ~11GB how to run › copy 63 Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512 Alibaba (FunAudioLLM) 57±4 local ~0.9GB how to run › copy 64 Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 NVIDIA 57±1 api $0.0015/audio min +local ~2GB ~95× www.together.ai ↗ +11 65 Kyutai STT 2.6B (en) Kyutai 57±4 local ~6.7GB how to run › copy 66 Whisper large-v3 OpenAI 57±1 api $0.0018/audio min +local ~4.2GB console.groq.com ↗ +25 67 GLM-ASR-Nano-2512 Z.ai 57±4 local ~5.9GB how to run › copy 68 Parakeet RNNT 0.6B NVIDIA 57±3 local ~3.5GB how to run › copy 69 Rev AI Fusion (Whisper Fusion) Rev 57±4 * comparison only 70 Orukeet Oruk AI 57±4 * local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 71 Parakeet Redux Moondream 57±3 local ~0.2GB how to run › copy 72 S Zipformer Transducer XL 290M SoundsGood AI 56±5 * † comparison only 73 Phonon-2 Fermion Research 56±7 * † local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 74 Parakeet TDT-CTC 1.1B NVIDIA 56±4 * local ~1.3GB how to run › copy 75 GPT-4o Mini Transcribe OpenAI 56±2 api $0.0030/audio min developers.openai.com ↗ 76 Omnilingual ASR LLM 1B v2 Meta 56±3 * local ~6GB how to run › copy 77 Omnilingual ASR LLM 1B Meta 56±2 local ~6GB how to run › copy 78 Distil-Whisper distil-large-v3 Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper) 56±2 local ~2.3GB how to run › copy 79 Omnilingual ASR LLM 3B v2 Meta 56±3 * local ~11GB how to run › copy 80 LiteWhisper large-v3 Efficient-Speech (LiteASR) 55±3 local ~3.7GB how to run › copy 81 Fun-ASR-Nano-2512 Alibaba (FunAudioLLM) 55±3 local ~0.9GB how to run › copy 82 Scribe v2 Realtime ElevenLabs 55±3 * api $0.0065/audio min elevenlabs.io ↗ 83 LiteWhisper large-v3-acc Efficient-Speech (LiteASR) 55±3 local ~3.9GB how to run › copy 84 Omnilingual ASR CTC 3B v2 Meta 55±3 * local ~7.9GB how to run › copy 85 Omnilingual ASR CTC 7B Meta 55±2 local ~16GB how to run › copy 86 SeamlessM4T v2 Large Meta 55±4 local ~9.2GB how to run › copy +1 87 Parakeet CTC 1.1B NVIDIA 55±3 local ~5.6GB how to run › copy 88 Qwen3-ASR-0.6B Alibaba (Qwen) 55±1 local ~2.8GB how to run › copy +2 89 Ink-Whisper Cartesia 55±3 api price unknown docs.cartesia.ai ↗ 90 Breeze ASR 25 MediaTek Research 54±4 local ~1.7GB how to run › copy 91 Parakeet CTC 0.6B NVIDIA 54±3 local ~3.4GB how to run › copy 92 Canary-180M-Flash NVIDIA 54±3 local ~1.4GB how to run › copy 93 Omnilingual ASR CTC 3B Meta 54±2 local ~7.9GB how to run › copy 94 MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize 0.9B OpenMOSS 54±4 local ~1GB how to run › copy 95 GPT-4o Transcribe OpenAI 53±1 api $0.0060/audio min developers.openai.com ↗ +5 96 Phonon-1 Fermion Research 53±7 * † comparison only 97 LiteWhisper large-v3-turbo-acc Efficient-Speech (LiteASR) 53±4 * local ~2.1GB how to run › copy 98 Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime (2602) Mistral 53±2 api $0.0060/audio min +local ~3.2GB docs.mistral.ai ↗ +1 99 Parakeet primeline (German) primeLine 52±4 * local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 100 Omnilingual ASR CTC 7B v2 Meta 52±3 * local ~16GB how to run › copy 101 Omnilingual ASR LLM 300M Meta 52±2 local ~4.4GB how to run › copy 102 Rev AI Machine (Reverb ASR) Rev 52±3 api $0.0033/audio min docs.rev.ai ↗ 103 LiteWhisper large-v3-fast Efficient-Speech (LiteASR) 52±3 local ~3.6GB how to run › copy 104 VibeVoice-ASR-HF Microsoft 52±3 local ~21GB how to run › copy 105 OWSM-CTC v4 1B ESPnet (CMU WAVLab) 52±4 local ~5.4GB how to run › copy 106 Omnilingual ASR CTC 1B Meta 51±2 local ~2.9GB how to run › copy 107 Whisper large-v2 OpenAI 51±2 local ~4.2GB how to run › copy +1 108 STT En Conformer-CTC Large NVIDIA 51±4 * local ~1.1GB how to run › copy 109 Omnilingual ASR LLM 300M v2 Meta 51±3 * local ~4.4GB how to run › copy 110 Moonshine Streaming Medium Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI) 50±3 local ~1.8GB how to run › copy 111 VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet Microsoft 50±4 † local ~1.7GB how to run › copy 112 Parakeet TDT-CTC 110M NVIDIA 50±3 local ~1.1GB how to run › copy 113 Chirp Google 50±4 * comparison only 114 ESPnet HuBERT Large + Conformer + Transformer LM ESPnet 50±4 * † local ~8GB how to run › copy 115 ESPnet WavLM Large + Conformer + Transformer LM ESPnet 50±4 * † local ~8GB how to run › copy 116 OWSM-CTC v3.1 1B ESPnet (CMU WAVLab) 50±4 local ~5.4GB how to run › copy 117 Multitalker Parakeet Streaming 0.6B v1 NVIDIA 50±4 * local ~0.9GB how to run › copy 118 Omnilingual ASR CTC 1B v2 Meta 50±3 local ~2.9GB how to run › copy 119 Whisper large (v1) OpenAI 49±3 local ~4.2GB how to run › copy 120 OWSM-CTC v3.2 ft 1B ESPnet (CMU WAVLab) 49±4 local ~5.4GB how to run › copy 121 Nemotron Speech Streaming EN 0.6B NVIDIA 49±4 * local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 122 Ultravox v0.6 (Llama 3.1 8B) Fixie.ai (Ultravox) 48±5 * comparison only 123 Whisper medium.en OpenAI 48±3 local ~2.4GB how to run › copy 124 Distil-Whisper distil-large-v2 Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper) 48±2 local ~2.3GB how to run › copy 125 Distil-Whisper distil-small.en Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper) 48±4 * local ~0.9GB how to run › copy 126 VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B Microsoft 47±5 † local ~17GB how to run › copy 127 CrisperWhisper Nyra Health 47±3 local ~4.4GB how to run › copy 128 SpeechBrain Conformer (LargeScaleASR / Loquacious) SpeechBrain 47±5 * local ~2.8GB how to run › copy 129 GigaAM Multilingual Large (CTC 600M) Sber 47±7 * † local ~2.3GB how to run › copy 130 STT En Conformer-Transducer Large NVIDIA 46±4 local ~1.1GB how to run › copy 131 ESPnet E-Branchformer (no LM) ESPnet 46±4 * † local ~0.8GB how to run › copy 132 ESPnet Multiconvformer (no LM) ESPnet 46±4 * † local ~0.8GB how to run › copy 133 STT En FastConformer-Transducer Large NVIDIA 46±3 local ~1.1GB how to run › copy 134 Moonshine Streaming Small Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI) 46±3 local ~1.2GB how to run › copy 135 STT En FastConformer-CTC Large NVIDIA 45±3 local ~1.1GB how to run › copy 136 SenseVoice Small Alibaba (FunAudioLLM) 45±3 local ~0.3GB how to run › copy 137 ESPnet wav2vec 2.0 Large + Conformer + Transformer LM ESPnet 45±4 * † local ~8GB how to run › copy 138 ESPnet Conformer + S4 decoder (no LM) ESPnet 45±4 * † local ~8GB how to run › copy 139 Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M Meta 45±2 local ~1.3GB how to run › copy 140 Distil-Whisper distil-medium.en Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper) 44±3 local ~1.4GB how to run › copy 141 Whisper small.en OpenAI 44±3 local ~1.1GB how to run › copy 142 ESPnet Branchformer 18-layer (70 epochs, no LM) ESPnet 44±4 * † local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 143 Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B NVIDIA 43±3 local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 144 Whisper medium OpenAI 43±2 local ~2.3GB how to run › copy +4 145 Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M v2 Meta 43±3 * local ~1.3GB how to run › copy 146 STT En Conformer-Transducer Small NVIDIA 43±3 local ~0.6GB how to run › copy 147 ESPnet Conformer 2020 + RNN LM ESPnet 43±4 * † local ~1GB how to run › copy 148 Vosk en-us 0.22 Alpha Cephei (Vosk) 42±6 local ~16GB how to run › copy 149 GigaAM Multilingual (CTC 220M) Sber 42±7 * † local ~0.9GB how to run › copy 150 ESPnet Transformer 18-layer + RNN LM ESPnet 41±4 * † local ~1GB how to run › copy 151 ABR asr-19m-v2-en Applied Brain Research 41±5 * local ~0.1GB how to run › copy 152 SpeechBrain Transformer + TransformerLM (LibriSpeech) SpeechBrain 40±8 * † comparison only 153 ESPnet Multi-blank Transducer 8421 ESPnet 40±4 * † local ~8GB how to run › copy 154 ESPnet Conformer RNN-T (no LM) ESPnet 40±4 * † local ~8GB how to run › copy 155 STT En Conformer-CTC Small NVIDIA 39±3 local ~0.6GB how to run › copy 156 Whisper small OpenAI 39±2 local ~1.1GB how to run › copy +5 157 Moonshine Base Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI) 38±3 local ~0.8GB how to run › copy 158 Whisper base.en OpenAI 35±3 local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 159 SpeechBrain wav2vec2 CTC (LibriSpeech) SpeechBrain 35±4 local ~2GB how to run › copy 160 Vosk small en-us 0.15 Alpha Cephei (Vosk) 31±6 local ~0.3GB how to run › copy 161 Moonshine Tiny Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI) 29±3 local ~0.6GB how to run › copy 162 Moonshine Streaming Tiny Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI) 28±3 local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 163 Whisper tiny.en OpenAI 27±3 local ~0.6GB how to run › copy 164 MMS-1B-all Meta 25±3 local ~5.1GB how to run › copy 165 Whisper base OpenAI 25±3 local ~0.7GB how to run › copy 166 wav2vec 2.0 Large 960h LV-60 self-training Meta 16±3 local ~2GB how to run › copy 167 HuBERT X-Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) Meta 16±4 local ~5.1GB how to run › copy 168 HuBERT Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) Meta 15±4 local ~2GB how to run › copy 169 wav2vec 2.0 Large Robust (LibriSpeech 960h ft) Meta 15±5 local ~2GB how to run › copy 170 Whisper tiny OpenAI 14±3 local ~0.6GB how to run › copy 171 wav2vec 2.0 Conformer Rel-Pos Large 960h Meta 13±4 local ~3.5GB how to run › copy 172 wav2vec 2.0 Conformer RoPE Large 960h Meta 13±4 local ~3.3GB how to run › copy 173 data2vec Audio Large 960h Meta 13±4 local ~2GB how to run › copy 174 wav2vec 2.0 Large 960h Meta 7±3 local ~2GB how to run › copy 175 data2vec Audio Base 960h Meta 4±4 local ~1GB how to run › copy 176 wav2vec 2.0 Base 960h Meta 2±4 local ~1GB how to run › copy 177 MMS-1B-FL102 Meta -10±5 local ~5.1GB how to run › copy 178 MedASR Google -14±4 * local ~0.1GB how to run › copy — AuroraASR-1M AuroraAI Research not scored yet local ~0.5GB how to run › copy — MAI-Transcribe-2 Microsoft AI no reviewed results api $0.0017/audio min azure.microsoft.com ↗ — Solaria-3 Gladia no reviewed results api $0.010/audio min www.gladia.io ↗ — Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 Mistral AI no reviewed results api $0.0035/audio min mistral.ai ↗ — Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 Mistral AI no reviewed results api $0.0080/audio min mistral.ai ↗ — Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 Mistral AI no reviewed results api $0.0040/audio min 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