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Open ASR · AMI-Cleaned WEREnglish short-form; normalization unversioned · Lower is better
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English short-form word error rate after source text normalization. Lower is better; insertions can raise WER above 100%. Leaderboard publication; individual runner and verification status are not established unless separately attributed.
| # | Model | AMI-Cleaned WER | Configuration | API rate / unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | nvidia/canary-1b-v2nvidia | 13.03% WER | nvidia/canary-1b-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 52 | Mistral: Voxtral Small 24B 2507mistralai | 13.19% WER | mistralai/Voxtral-Small-24B-2507Leaderboard entry | $0.10 in / $0.30 out/ 1M tokens · Mistral · via OpenRoutermistral/zdr | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 53 | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602mistralai | 13.34% WER | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 54 | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bnvidia | 13.43% WER | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 55 | Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507mistralai | 13.57% WER | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507Leaderboard entry | $16.6667 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 56 | whisper-large-v3openai | 13.63% WER | openai/whisper-large-v3Leaderboard entry | $7.50 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 57 | facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B-v2facebook | 13.86% WER | facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 58 | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.enabr-ai | 13.87% WER | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 59 | whisper-large-v3-turboopenai | 13.88% WER | openai/whisper-large-v3-turboLeaderboard entry | $3.33 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 60 | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.enabr-ai | 16.17% WER | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 61 | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2facebook | 17.44% WER | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 62 | google/gemma-4-E4B-itgoogle | 20.57% WER | google/gemma-4-E4B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 63 | abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.enabr-ai | 20.94% WER | abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 64 | google/gemma-4-E2B-itgoogle | 24.77% WER | google/gemma-4-E2B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 65 | google/gemma-4-12B-itgoogle | 75.79% WER | google/gemma-4-12B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |