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A Granite Speech 4.1 2B · Local · 6% on Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (English, short-form average WER)

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TierNameApproachRunsRated byPriceSkill
S Fun-Realtime-ASR (preview)
Alibaba
ModelsCloud1.7% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming)——
S MAI-Transcribe-2 (preview)
Microsoft AI
ModelsCloud2% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming)$0.0017/min of audio—
S Scribe v2
ElevenLabs
ModelsCloud2.2% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming)$0.0037/min of audio—
S Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0
xAI
ModelsCloud2.3% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming)$0.0017/min of audio—
S StepAudio 3 ASR
StepFun
ModelsCloud2.5% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming)$0.0067/min of audio—
S Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google
ModelsCloud2.6% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER v2 (non-streaming)$0.0050/min of audio—
A Ink-2
Cartesia
ModelsCloud3.4% on Artificial Analysis Speech to Text: AA-WER Streaming$0.0040/min of audio—
A Qwen3-ASR-1.7B
Alibaba (Qwen)
ModelsLocal5.4% on Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (English, short-form average WER)~6 GB VRAM—

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