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The best speech-to-text models

42 models & services · 0 callable here now

Ranked by benchmark score per dollar (quality floor applied). Scores: Open ASR Leaderboard — average word error rate across 8 English test sets - lower is better. Fetched 2026-07-12. Prices are our live per-call rates; ~ marks an estimate until the model is onboarded.

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#modelscorepriceparamsstatus
1AutoArk-AI/ARK-ASR-3B top score4.8 (#1)-4063.4Mnot hosted
2OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-preview-2B4.9 (#2)-2418.8Mnot hosted
3CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-20265.4 (#3)-2065.8Mnot hosted
4AutoArk-AI/ARK-ASR-0.6B5.5 (#4)-1299.5Mnot hosted
5soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M5.6 (#5)--not hosted
6Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B5.8 (#6)-2349.2Mnot hosted
7microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct6 (#7)-5574.5Mnot hosted
8nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v26.1 (#8)--not hosted
9nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v36.3 (#9)-627.1Mnot hosted
10nvidia/canary-1b-flash6.4 (#10)-811Mnot hosted
11kyutai/stt-2.6b-en6.4 (#11)-2617.1Mnot hosted
12Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B6.4 (#12)-938Mnot hosted
13nvidia/canary-1b6.5 (#13)--not hosted
14UsefulSensors/moonshine-streaming-medium6.7 (#14)-265.9Mnot hosted
15soundsgoodai/Zipformer-transducer-XL-290M6.7 (#15)--not hosted
16nvidia/parakeet-tdt-1.1b7 (#16)--not hosted
17zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-25127 (#17)-2257.8Mnot hosted
18mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-25077.1 (#18)-4676.3Mnot hosted
19nvidia/canary-180m-flash7.1 (#19)--not hosted
20nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-1.1b7.1 (#20)-1070.5Mnot hosted
21nvidia/canary-1b-v27.2 (#21)--not hosted
22distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.57.2 (#22)-756.4Mnot hosted
23nvidia/parakeet-ctc-1.1b7.4 (#23)-1062.6Mnot hosted
24espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1B7.4 (#24)--not hosted
25openai/whisper-large-v37.4 (#25)-1543.5Mnot hosted
26nvidia/parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m7.5 (#26)--not hosted
27nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-0.6b7.5 (#27)-616.7Mnot hosted
28nvidia/parakeet-ctc-0.6b7.7 (#28)-608.8Mnot hosted
29microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-HF7.8 (#29)-8330.3Mnot hosted
30openai/whisper-large-v27.8 (#30)-1543.3Mnot hosted
31UsefulSensors/moonshine-streaming-small7.8 (#31)-140.1Mnot hosted
32openai/whisper-large7.9 (#32)-1543.3Mnot hosted
33openai/whisper-medium.en8.1 (#33)-763.9Mnot hosted
34espnet/owsm_ctc_v3.1_1B8.1 (#34)--not hosted
35nvidia/stt_en_conformer_ctc_large8.3 (#35)--not hosted
36speechbrain/asr-conformer-loquacious8.5 (#36)--not hosted
37openai/whisper-small.en8.6 (#37)-241.7Mnot hosted
38abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.en8.9 (#38)--not hosted
39nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_ctc_large9 (#39)--not hosted
40nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_transducer_large9.1 (#40)--not hosted
41OpenAI Whisper API-$0.006 / minute-reference
42Deepgram Nova-3-$0.0043 / minute-reference
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