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Task

All Tasks Speech Recognition (67)Speech (13)audio generation (6)Image Classification (2)voice activity detection (1)

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Max VRAM≤512MB ≤1GB ≤2GB ≤4GB ≤8GB All

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Showing 39 models

#	Model	Domain	Task	Params ↑	GFLOPs	VRAM	Score	Speed	Arch	Source
1	abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.en	Speech	Speech Recognition	9.00M	—	22 MB	——	7158 RTFx	State-space model/CTC	Open ASR
2	abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.en	Speech	Speech Recognition	20.0M	—	48 MB	——	4324 RTFx	State-space model/CTC	Open ASR
3	abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.en	Speech	Speech Recognition	38.0M	—	91 MB	——	4015 RTFx	—	Open ASR
4	nvidia/canary-180m-flash	Speech	Speech Recognition	180.0M	—	432 MB	——	2489 RTFx	Conformer-based/Transformer	Open ASR
5	soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M	Speech	Speech Recognition	290.0M	—	696 MB	——	158 RTFx	Zipformer/Pruned Stateless Transducer with k2 modified_beam_search	Open ASR
6	soundsgoodai/Zipformer-transducer-XL-290M	Speech	Speech Recognition	290.0M	—	696 MB	——	141 RTFx	Zipformer/RNN-T	Open ASR
7	AutoArk-AI/Audio8-ASR-0.1B	Speech	Speech Recognition	324.0M	—	778 MB	——	719 RTFx	Qwen3-ASR audio encoder/8-layer Qwen-style causal LM	Open ASR
8	ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc	Speech	Speech Recognition	470.0M	—	1.1 GB	——	12946 RTFx	Streaming-style Conformer/CTC	Open ASR
9	ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc-nc	Speech	Speech Recognition	470.0M	—	1.1 GB	——	12762 RTFx	Streaming-style Conformer/CTC	Open ASR
10	nvidia/parakeet-ctc-0.6b	Speech	Speech Recognition	600.0M	—	1.4 GB	——	5870 RTFx	Conformer-based/CTC	Open ASR
11	nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-0.6b	Speech	Speech Recognition	600.0M	—	1.4 GB	——	5431 RTFx	Conformer-based/TDT / RNN-T	Open ASR
12	nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2	Speech	Speech Recognition	600.0M	—	1.4 GB	——	6025 RTFx	Conformer-based/TDT / RNN-T	Open ASR
13	nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3	Speech	Speech Recognition	600.0M	—	1.4 GB	——	6076 RTFx	Conformer-based/TDT / RNN-T	Open ASR
14	nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b	Speech	Speech Recognition	620.0M	—	1.5 GB	——	1167 RTFx	FastConformer (cache-aware)/RNNT	Open ASR
15	nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b	Speech	Speech Recognition	640.0M	—	1.5 GB	——	1345 RTFx	FastConformer (cache-aware)/RNNT	Open ASR
16	Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-hf	Speech	Speech Recognition	780.0M	—	1.8 GB	——	744 RTFx	Custom/Qwen3	Open ASR
17	distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5	Speech	Speech Recognition	800.0M	—	1.9 GB	——	879 RTFx	Whisper/Transformer	Open ASR
18	openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo	Speech	Speech Recognition	800.0M	—	1.9 GB	——	797 RTFx	Whisper/Transformer	Open ASR
19	FunAudioLLM/Fun-ASR-Nano-2512-hf	Speech	Speech Recognition	830.0M	—	1.9 GB	——	497 RTFx	Qwen3-ASR/Custom	Open ASR
20	OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize	Speech	Speech Recognition	910.0M	—	2.1 GB	——	381 RTFx	"Whisper audio encoder/24 layers"	Open ASR
21	espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1B	Speech	Speech Recognition	1.0B	—	2.3 GB	——	777 RTFx	Whisper/CTC	Open ASR
22	nvidia/canary-1b	Speech	Speech Recognition	1.0B	—	2.3 GB	——	767 RTFx	Conformer-based/Transformer	Open ASR
23	nvidia/canary-1b-flash	Speech	Speech Recognition	1.0B	—	2.3 GB	——	2129 RTFx	Conformer-based/Transformer	Open ASR
24	nvidia/canary-1b-v2	Speech	Speech Recognition	1.0B	—	2.3 GB	——	1825 RTFx	Conformer-based/Transformer	Open ASR
25	nvidia/parakeet-ctc-1.1b	Speech	Speech Recognition	1.1B	—	2.6 GB	——	5023 RTFx	Conformer-based/CTC	Open ASR
26	nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-1.1b	Speech	Speech Recognition	1.1B	—	2.6 GB	——	4139 RTFx	Conformer-based/TDT / RNN-T	Open ASR
27	AutoArk-AI/ARK-ASR-0.6B	Speech	Speech Recognition	1.1B	—	2.7 GB	——	663 RTFx	Whisper/Qwen2	Open ASR
28	CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.0B	—	4.7 GB	——	907 RTFx	Conformer-based/Transformer	Open ASR
29	ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-speech	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.0B	—	4.7 GB	——	666 RTFx	Conformer-based/Granite	Open ASR
30	ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.0B	—	4.7 GB	——	546 RTFx	Conformer-based/Granite	Open ASR
31	ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.0B	—	4.7 GB	——	2074 RTFx	Conformer-based/Hybrid CTC-LLM	Open ASR
32	openai/whisper-large-v3	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.0B	—	4.7 GB	——	470 RTFx	Whisper/Transformer	Open ASR
33	zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.0B	—	4.7 GB	——	334 RTFx	Whisper/Llama	Open ASR
34	Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-hf	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.0B	—	4.8 GB	——	820 RTFx	Custom/Qwen3	Open ASR
35	OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-preview-2B	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.4B	—	5.7 GB	——	151 RTFx	Qwen3-Omni-MoE audio encoder/Qwen3	Open ASR
36	nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.5B	—	5.9 GB	——	867 RTFx	Conformer-based/Qwen2	Open ASR
37	kyutai/stt-2.6b-en	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.6B	—	6.1 GB	——	133 RTFx	Mimi tokenizer/Transformer	Open ASR
38	bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-stt	Speech	Speech Recognition	2.7B	—	6.3 GB	——	111 RTFx	Whisper/Qwen3	Open ASR
39	ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2b	Speech	Speech Recognition	3.0B	—	7.0 GB	——	509 RTFx	Conformer-based/Granite	Open ASR