Leaderboards

Benchmarks

Every score carries its origin.

Reasoning374 Coding337 Math221 Agentic375 Chat636 Speech778

Accented speech76 Clean read speech92 European-accented speech92 Financial calls92 Harder read speech92 Open ASR RTFx74 Open ASR WER76 Podcasts and video92 Recorded meetings92

Open ASR RTFx

Speed as a multiple of real time on the same harness — 100 means an hour of audio in 36 seconds. Hardware-dependent, so it compares models on one rig, not machines

Provenance74 modelsscores Aug 1, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026

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#ModelScoreScore / $Score / GB VRAMScoredOrigin

1Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, ctc Greedy Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore20628Score / $—Score / GB VRAM—ScoredSep 28, 2026 2Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, transducer Modified Beam Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore19047Score / $—Score / GB VRAM—ScoredSep 28, 2026 3Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore14199Score / $—Score / GB VRAM—ScoredSep 28, 2026 4Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore13155Score / $—Score / GB VRAM—ScoredSep 28, 2026 5Granite Speech 5.0 470m TurboctcIBM0.5BScore12946Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~40000ScoredSep 11, 2026 6Granite Speech 5.0 470m Turboctc ncIBM0.5BScore12762Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~40000ScoredSep 11, 2026 7Niagara 9m Batch.enApplied Brain Research9MScore7158Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~720000ScoredSep 28, 2026 8Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1BScore6084Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~87000ScoredSep 11, 2026 9Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6BScore6076Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~16000ScoredSep 11, 2026 10Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6BScore6025Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~16000ScoredSep 11, 2026 11Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore5870Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~15000ScoredSep 11, 2026 12Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore5431Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~14000ScoredSep 11, 2026 13Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore5023Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~7300ScoredSep 11, 2026 14Parakeet TDT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore4529Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~6600ScoredAug 1, 2026 15Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38MScore4529Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~230000ScoredSep 28, 2026 16Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors0Score4445Score / $—Score / GB VRAM—ScoredSep 11, 2026 17Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20MScore4324Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~430000ScoredSep 28, 2026 18Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore4139Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~6000ScoredSep 11, 2026 19Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors0Score3840Score / $—Score / GB VRAM—ScoredSep 11, 2026 20Moonshine Streaming SmallUseful Sensors0.1BScore3206Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~53000ScoredAug 1, 2026 21Hubert Large Ls960 ftMeta0.3BScore3024Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~15000ScoredAug 1, 2026 22Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 SelfMeta0.3BScore3010Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~15000ScoredAug 1, 2026 23Moonshine Streaming MediumUseful Sensors0.3BScore2681Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~14000ScoredAug 1, 2026 24Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2BScore2489Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~23000ScoredSep 11, 2026 25Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA0.8BScore2129Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~4300ScoredSep 11, 2026 26Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3BScore2074Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~1400ScoredSep 11, 2026 27MMS 1b AllMeta1BScore1954Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~3100ScoredAug 1, 2026 28Niagara 84m Batch.enApplied Brain Research84MScore1928Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~39000ScoredSep 28, 2026 29Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1BScore1825Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~2900ScoredSep 11, 2026 30Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore1345Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~3500ScoredSep 14, 2026 31Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore1167Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~3100ScoredSep 14, 2026 32Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1BScore906.6Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~690ScoredSep 11, 2026 33Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8BScore879.3Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~1800ScoredSep 11, 2026 34Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6BScore867.1Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~530ScoredSep 11, 2026 35Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2BScore820Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~650ScoredSep 11, 2026 36Owsm CTC v3.1 1BESPnet1.1BScore816.2Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~1200ScoredAug 1, 2026 37Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8BScore797Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~1600ScoredSep 14, 2026 38Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1BScore776.7Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~1200ScoredSep 11, 2026 39Canary 1bNVIDIA1BScore766.8Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~1200ScoredSep 11, 2026 40Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8BScore744Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~1500ScoredSep 11, 2026 41Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3BScore719.2Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~3800ScoredSep 11, 2026 42Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1BESPnet1BScore692.3Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~1100ScoredAug 1, 2026 43Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3BScore666.2Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~460ScoredSep 11, 2026 44ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3BScore663.5Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~810ScoredSep 11, 2026 45Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3BScore545.6Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~380ScoredSep 11, 2026 46omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5BScore519.3Score / $—Score / GB VRAM—ScoredSep 11, 2026 47Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3BScore509.4Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~270ScoredSep 11, 2026 48Fun ASR Nano 2512 HFFunAudioLLM0.8BScore497.3Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~990ScoredSep 14, 2026 49ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1BScore481.5Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~190ScoredSep 11, 2026 50Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5BScore470.2Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~490ScoredSep 11, 2026 51Qwen3 ASR 0.6BQwen0.9BScore438.7Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~770ScoredAug 1, 2026 52Qwen3 ASR 1.7BQwen2.3BScore394.1Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~270ScoredAug 1, 2026 53MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9BScore381.2Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~670ScoredSep 11, 2026 54GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3BScore334.4Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~230ScoredSep 11, 2026 55Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6BScore262.8Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~48ScoredSep 11, 2026 56VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3BScore218.6Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~42ScoredSep 11, 2026 57Lite Whisper Large v3 AccEfficient Speech1.4BScore203.9Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~230ScoredAug 1, 2026 58Gemma 4 E2B itGoogle5.1BScore190.8Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~59ScoredSep 14, 2026 59Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI4.7BScore180.9Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~61ScoredSep 11, 2026 60Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6BScore162.5Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~46ScoredSep 11, 2026 61Gemma 4 E4B itGoogle8BScore161.3Score / $1613Score / GB VRAM~32ScoredSep 14, 2026 62Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore158.3Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~880ScoredSep 11, 2026 63MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4BScore150.8Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~100ScoredSep 11, 2026 64Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore141.1Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~780ScoredSep 11, 2026 65Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9BScore136.7Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~24ScoredSep 11, 2026 66STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6BScore133.1Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~81ScoredSep 11, 2026 67omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8BScore128.8Score / $—Score / GB VRAM—ScoredSep 11, 2026 68Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7BScore111.2Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~65ScoredSep 11, 2026 69Gemma 4 12B itGoogle12BScore106.1Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~14ScoredSep 14, 2026 70Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4BScore102.6Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~37ScoredSep 11, 2026 71Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3BScore101.3Score / $338Score / GB VRAM~6.6ScoredSep 11, 2026 72Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2BScore72.51Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~22ScoredSep 11, 2026 73ASR Conformer LargescaleasrSpeechBrain0.5BScore72.36Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~240ScoredAug 1, 2026 74Nyra Health CrisperWhisperNyra Health1.6BScore33.25Score / $—Score / GB VRAM~33ScoredAug 1, 2026