ARK ASR 3B measured on 16 of 80 Speech to text benchmarks16
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6.5Open ASR
Jun 2026released
en, es, fr +16Languages
Alternatives?
ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
MBetterMultilingual+35%—$0.001
OpenQwen 3 ASR 1.7B Hf+38%——
BetterParakeet TDT 0.6B V3, TogetheraiOpen+38%—$0.002Memory (4-bit): not verifiedZBetterZoom Scribe V2 Pro+96%—$0.003Languages: loses es, fr, de +15ABetterUniversal 3.5 Prounstated+33%—$0.004Languages: loses ko, pl, ro +7ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
MMultilingual+35%—$0.001Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3, TogetheraiOpen+38%—$0.002Memory (4-bit): not verifiedZZoom Scribe V2 Pro+96%—$0.003Languages: loses es, fr, de +15AUniversal 3.5 Prounstated+33%—$0.004Languages: loses ko, pl, ro +7rResonant 1unstated+47%—$0.004Languages: not verifiedModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Qwen 3 ASR 1.7B HfOpen+38%——OMOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpen+33%——Languages: loses es, fr, de +14Canary Qwen 2.5B, NVIDIAOpen+26%—$0.001Languages: loses es, fr, de +15
Granite Speech 4.1 2B NarOpen+21%——Languages: loses zh, ja, it +12Granite Speech 4.1 2BOpen+21%——Languages: loses zh, it, ko +11ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
EAudio8 ASR 0.1BOpen-36%——Languages: loses es, it, pl +10EARK ASR 0.6BOpen+20%——All Edge0 models →Run it yourself
estimateFits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · 8-bit✓ 16 GB · full quality✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality
LicenceApache-2.0free for commercial use
Benchmarks
in Speech & VoiceOpen ASR · average WER6.5#33
Open ASR · RTFx480.1#31
Open ASR · URGENT 2024 WER13.3#32
Open ASR · AMI WER8.8#9
FAQ
How much does ARK ASR 3B cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
Is ARK ASR 3B free to use?›
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
How good is ARK ASR 3B, and what is it best at?›
#33 of 61 in Speech to text.
Is ARK ASR 3B better than Whisper Large v3?›
On Open ASR · Earnings-22 Cleaned AA Chunked WER, ARK ASR 3B scores 8.1 vs 8 — about the same.
When was ARK ASR 3B released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2026-06-22. It is the current version in its line.
Is ARK ASR 3B open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
Can I run ARK ASR 3B locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is ARK ASR 3B?›
ARK ASR 3B is an open-weights speech & voice model from Edge0, released Jun 2026.
What are the best alternatives to ARK ASR 3B?›
Multilingual (better), Qwen 3 ASR 1.7B Hf (open weights).