MODEL INTELLIGENCE

ModelRank

Compare models within one task and one source. Human preference, benchmark ability, and usage measure different things; their scores are not combined.

Source Open ASR Leaderboard Source publication: Not published by source Last successful source check: 2026-11-03 13:00 UTC Snapshot stored: 2026-11-02 20:04 UTC

Original source

Methodology and data notes

Speech recognition. Audio generation is not covered here.

Metric: Average WER, lower is better

Ranking source

Open ASR Leaderboard Average WER

Rank	Model	Organization	Average WER ↓	95% CI	Access	Evidence
1	Edge0/ARK-ASR-3B Average WER ↓	Edge0	4.76	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
2	OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-preview-2B Average WER ↓	OpenMOSS	4.87	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
3	OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize Average WER ↓	OpenMOSS	5.17	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
4	hf-audio/MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize-HF Average WER ↓	Hugging Face for Audio	5.17	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
5	moondream/parakeet-ultra Average WER ↓	moondream	5.32	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
6	CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 Average WER ↓	Cohere Labs	5.42	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
7	Edge0/ARK-ASR-0.6B Average WER ↓	Edge0	5.53	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
8	soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M Average WER ↓	SoundsGoodAI	5.56	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
9	Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B Average WER ↓	Qwen	5.76	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
10	microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct Average WER ↓	Microsoft	6.02	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
11	nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	6.05	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
12	moondream/parakeet-redux Average WER ↓	moondream	6.05	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
13	LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B Average WER ↓	Liquid AI	6.23	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
14	nvidia/canary-1b-flash Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	6.35	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
15	LiquidAI/LFM3-Omni-2B Average WER ↓	Liquid AI	6.36	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
16	kyutai/stt-2.6b-en Average WER ↓	Kyutai	6.40	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
17	Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B Average WER ↓	Qwen	6.42	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
18	nvidia/canary-1b Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	6.50	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
19	moonshine-ai/moonshine-streaming-medium Average WER ↓	Moonshine AI	6.66	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
20	soundsgoodai/Zipformer-transducer-XL-290M Average WER ↓	SoundsGoodAI	6.71	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
21	nvidia/parakeet-tdt-1.1b Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	7.01	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
22	zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512 Average WER ↓	Z.ai	7.03	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
23	Edge0/Audio8-ASR-0.1B Average WER ↓	Edge0	7.03	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
24	mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 Average WER ↓	Mistral	7.05	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
25	nvidia/canary-180m-flash Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	7.12	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
26	nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-1.1b Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	7.12	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
27	nvidia/canary-1b-v2 Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	7.15	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
28	distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 Average WER ↓	Whisper Distillation	7.21	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
29	espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1B Average WER ↓	ESPnet	7.42	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
30	openai/whisper-large-v3 Average WER ↓	OpenAI	7.44	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
31	nvidia/parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	7.49	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
32	nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-0.6b Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	7.50	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
33	nvidia/parakeet-ctc-0.6b Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	7.69	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
34	microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-HF Average WER ↓	Microsoft	7.77	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
35	openai/whisper-large-v2 Average WER ↓	OpenAI	7.83	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
36	moonshine-ai/moonshine-streaming-small Average WER ↓	Moonshine AI	7.84	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
37	openai/whisper-large Average WER ↓	OpenAI	7.94	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
38	openai/whisper-medium.en Average WER ↓	OpenAI	8.09	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
39	espnet/owsm_ctc_v3.1_1B Average WER ↓	ESPnet	8.12	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
40	nvidia/stt_en_conformer_ctc_large Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	8.32	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
41	speechbrain/asr-conformer-loquacious Average WER ↓	SpeechBrain	8.48	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
42	openai/whisper-small.en Average WER ↓	OpenAI	8.59	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
43	nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_ctc_large Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	8.96	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
44	nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_transducer_large Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	9.06	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
45	abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.en Average WER ↓	Applied Brain Research, Inc.	9.36	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
46	moonshine-ai/moonshine-base Average WER ↓	Moonshine AI	9.99	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
47	openai/whisper-base.en Average WER ↓	OpenAI	10.32	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
48	abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.en Average WER ↓	Applied Brain Research, Inc.	11.01	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
49	nvidia/stt_en_conformer_ctc_small Average WER ↓	NVIDIA	11.16	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source
50	moonshine-ai/moonshine-streaming-tiny Average WER ↓	Moonshine AI	12	—	Mixed / see source	Not team-checked Source