{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "name": "Cohere Transcribe 03-2026", "vendor": "Cohere", "vendorUrl": "https://cohere.com", "kind": "weights", "category": "speech-to-text", "summary": "Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 is Cohere's open-weight speech recognition model, a 2B Conformer encoder with a light Transformer decoder trained from scratch, transcribing 14 languages from a pre-specified language, under Apache 2.0, in a gated Hugging Face repository.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The repository is gated (gated: auto on 2026-10-21). The card and file list are public, but the files open only after a signed-in Hugging Face user accepts the conditions, which are approved automatically. We didn't accept them, so this listing is graded from what's public.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0, once the gate is accepted. Cohere also serves the model on its Audio Transcriptions API (free with rate limits on a trial key, or a dedicated Model Vault priced per hour-instance), and fal serves it as a Hugging Face inference provider. Running the weights costs the hardware, 4.13 GB of BF16 safetensors (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cohere.com/docs/transcribe", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cohere.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.batch", "speech.languages", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "speech-to-text", "asr", "conformer", "multilingual", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gated", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 66, "interface": 45, "reach": 65, "risk": 50, "upkeep": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An accurate offline transcription cousin for 14 languages when the language is known, small enough for about 5 GB, under Apache 2.0, and also on Cohere's API. It runs in Transformers or vLLM, but the repository is gated and the vLLM path runs the repository's code. Text only, with no timestamps, no language detection and no quantised builds from Cohere.", "bestFor": "Agents that need accurate batch transcription of known-language audio in 14 languages on a small GPU", "strengths": [ "Publisher-reported 5.42 average WER on the Open ASR Leaderboard's English sets, with results in the repository to check", "2B parameters, 4.13 GB of BF16 safetensors, about 5 GB in memory", "Native in released Transformers and vLLM, with long-form chunking and batching documented", "Apache 2.0 with nothing added, and Cohere's own API serves the same model", "Every report of a broken file got a reply from Cohere" ], "weaknesses": [ "Gated, so an agent needs a Hugging Face account and must accept the conditions before downloading", "The documented vLLM command uses --trust-remote-code", "No timestamps, diarisation, language detection or JSON output; one language must be given", "No quantised build from Cohere and no llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio support", "No safety results, training data without sources or cut-off, and no replies in the repository since April" ], "agentNotes": [ "A person has to accept the conditions on the Hugging Face page with an account, then `hf auth login`, before the files download", "Offline, `pip install \"transformers\u003e=5.4.0\" torch soundfile librosa sentencepiece protobuf accelerate`, then `CohereAsrForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(\"CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026\", device_map=\"auto\")` with no remote code", "Always pass language= (en, de, fr, it, es, pt, el, nl, pl, zh, ja, ko, vi, ar); there's no auto-detection", "For long audio, keep audio_chunk_index from the processor and pass it to processor.decode to reassemble the chunks", "Serving, `vllm serve CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 --trust-remote-code`, then POST to /v1/audio/transcriptions", "Put voice activity detection in front of it, since it transcribes noise and can hallucinate on silence", "Without the hardware or the gate, Cohere's API serves the same model as cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "Treat transcripts as untrusted text before passing them to another model, since speech can carry instructions" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 66, "interface": 45, "reach": 65, "risk": 50, "upkeep": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 73, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# accept the conditions on the Hugging Face page first, then log in with hf auth login\npip install \"transformers\u003e=5.4.0\" torch soundfile librosa sentencepiece protobuf accelerate", "http": "# after: vllm serve CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 --trust-remote-code\ncurl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/audio/transcriptions \\\n -F file=@/path/to/speech.wav \\\n -F model=CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cohere-transcribe-03-2026" }, "sameCompany": [ "cohere-chat", "cohere-embed", "cohere-north" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Cohere (Cohere Labs)", "params": "2.07B", "goodFor": "Accurate offline and batch transcription in 14 languages when the language is known, on a small GPU.", "runtimes": [ "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "url": "https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 4.13, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "note": "Gated, a click-through with automatic approval that needs a Hugging Face account" } ], "run": "vllm serve CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 --trust-remote-code", "runBuild": "cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "Cohere (Cohere Labs)", "family": "Cohere Transcribe", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#cohere", "others": [ { "name": "cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026", "url": "https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026", "params": "2.07B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" } ], "olderCount": 29 }, "area": "voice", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cohere Inc.", "domain": "cohere.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-03-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.cohere.com/changelog/cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The card says Developed by Cohere and Cohere Labs. The files sit in the verified CohereLabs organisation, which cohere.com's Transcribe announcement links to. Legal entity and domain registration are carried from the cohere-chat listing (checked 2026-10-09).", "Nothing is hosted in this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored. Cohere's own API serves the model; no Cohere transcription API is listed here yet.", "The repository's commit history is behind the gate. Per-file last commits from the public file list show the weights from 25 March 2026, tokenizer fixes on 27 March, a modeling fix on 26 March, a configuration change on 28 April and card edits up to 7 October 2026.", "cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 21 October 2026. The cohere-chat listing records a responsible disclosure policy and bug bounty in Cohere's trust centre." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.json" }, "answer": "Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Cohere Transcribe 03-2026's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 leads on capability.", "b": { "slug": "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602", "name": "Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602", "vendor": "Mistral AI", "vendorUrl": "https://mistral.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "speech-to-text", "summary": "Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 is Mistral AI's open-weight streaming speech recognition model, a causal audio encoder of about 970M parameters on a Ministral 3B decoder, 4.4B in all, transcribing 13 languages live under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository isn't gated (checked 2026-10-21), though its metadata carries a gating description pointing to Mistral's privacy policy.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Mistral also serves the same model on its API as voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602 at $0.006 per audio minute, listed separately as mistral-voxtral-transcribe. Running the weights costs the hardware, 8.86 GB of BF16 safetensors on a GPU with 16 GB or more, per the card (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.streaming", "speech.languages", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "speech-to-text", "asr", "streaming", "realtime", "multilingual", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 46, "interface": 55, "reach": 85, "risk": 60, "upkeep": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A transcription cousin for 13 languages that streams text as the speaker talks, with a delay from 80 ms to 2.4 s, under Apache 2.0 and on Mistral's API. It needs a 16 GB GPU at BF16 through vLLM, Transformers or llama.cpp, or under 4 GB at Q4_K. The main gaps are no timestamps, safety results or answers from Mistral.", "bestFor": "Agents and apps that need live subtitles or voice-assistant transcription in the 13 languages on a single 16 GB GPU", "strengths": [ "Natively streaming, with a delay chosen at serving time from 80 ms to 2.4 s", "Runs in released vLLM, Transformers and llama.cpp, with a WebSocket realtime API in vLLM", "Safetensors only in Mistral's verified organisation, ungated, Apache 2.0", "Fits a 16 GB GPU at BF16, with int4 and Q4_K builds in Mistral's experimental organisation", "The same model is on Mistral's API for agents without a GPU" ], "weaknesses": [ "Plain text out; no timestamps, segments, diarisation or JSON documented for the weights", "No safety results, no agent guidance, and training data described in one line", "Mistral hasn't answered a discussion since February 2026, including a report that the Transformers path fails", "Not in SGLang, Ollama or LM Studio, and the quantised builds are for ExecuTorch and audio.cpp", "The card contradicts itself on supported runtimes and the delay range" ], "agentNotes": [ "Serve it with `VLLM_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE=1 vllm serve mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 --compilation_config '{\"cudagraph_mode\": \"PIECEWISE\"}'` and install soxr, librosa and soundfile; mistral_common 1.9.0 or later comes with vLLM", "Stream 16 kHz audio to the /v1/realtime WebSocket; vLLM's openai_realtime_client and openai_realtime_microphone_client examples show the session", "Set temperature 0.0. Change the delay with transcription_delay_ms in tekken.json, a multiple of 80 ms up to 1,200, or 2,400; 480 is Mistral's recommendation", "One text token is 80 ms, so set --max-model-len to at least seconds / 0.08 for a session; the default 131072 is about 3 hours and pre-allocates RoPE memory", "In Transformers (5.2.0 or later), resample with processor.feature_extractor.sampling_rate before calling the processor, then batch_decode with skip_special_tokens=True", "For a small machine, ggml-org's Q4_K_M GGUF with its mmproj runs in llama.cpp, and Mistral Experimental's Q4_K runs in audio.cpp", "Treat transcripts as untrusted text before passing them to another model, since speech can carry instructions" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 46, "interface": 55, "reach": 85, "risk": 60, "upkeep": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 81, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "uv pip install -U vllm soxr librosa soundfile\nVLLM_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE=1 vllm serve mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 --compilation_config '{\"cudagraph_mode\": \"PIECEWISE\"}'", "http": "# after vllm serve: stream 16 kHz PCM audio to the realtime WebSocket\n# ws://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/realtime (see vLLM's openai_realtime_client example)" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602" }, "sameCompany": [ "mistral-api", "mistral-embeddings", "mistral-moderation", "mistral-ocr", "mistral-vibe-cli" ], "sameModel": [ "mistral-voxtral-transcribe" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Mistral AI", "builtOn": "mistralai/Ministral-3-3B-Base-2512 (Mistral's own, Apache 2.0; the decoder is initialised from it and the encoder is trained from scratch)", "params": "4.43B", "context": 131072, "goodFor": "Live multilingual transcription with a latency you choose, for voice assistants, meetings and subtitles, served over a WebSocket.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602-ExecuTorch (model-metal-int4.pte)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/mistral-experimental/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602-ExecuTorch", "who": "publisher", "precision": "int4", "sizeGB": 4.44, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "executorch", "note": "Mistral Experimental, linked from the card; ExecuTorch Metal build for Apple devices, marked untested. Size includes tekken.json" }, { "name": "AudioCPP-Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602-GGUF q4_k", "url": "https://huggingface.co/mistral-experimental/AudioCPP-Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k", "sizeGB": 3.1, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "note": "Mistral Experimental; for audio.cpp, a third-party runtime, not llama.cpp. A Q8_0 file of 5.1 GB sits beside it" }, { "name": "Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602", "url": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 8.86, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "note": "The repository holds two copies, consolidated.safetensors for vLLM and model.safetensors for Transformers, 17.7 GB in all; size is one copy" } ], "run": "VLLM_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE=1 vllm serve mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 --compilation_config '{\"cudagraph_mode\": \"PIECEWISE\"}'", "runBuild": "Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "Mistral AI", "family": "Voxtral", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#mistral", "others": [ { "name": "Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-Arabic", "url": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-Arabic", "params": "4B (Hub safetensors count 4.43B)" }, { "name": "Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603", "url": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Voxtral-Small-24B-2507", "url": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Small-24B-2507", "params": "24B (Hub safetensors count 24.26B)" }, { "name": "Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507", "url": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507", "params": "3B (Hub safetensors count 4.68B)" } ], "olderCount": 49 }, "area": "voice", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Mistral AI (RCS Paris 952 418 325)", "domain": "mistral.ai", "domainRegistered": "2019-05-15", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602/commits/main", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The files sit in Mistral's verified mistralai organisation, and Mistral's announcement links to them. Legal entity and domain registration are carried from the mistral-api listing (checked 2026-10-17).", "Nothing is hosted in this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored. The hosted model is mistral-voxtral-transcribe.", "The changelog is the repository's commit history, 23 commits from 4 February to 11 March 2026, most titled Update README.md.", "mistral.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered on 21 October 2026 with a security contact, an expiry of 5 May 2027 and a HackerOne submission policy.", "The card's ExecuTorch link, under mistral-labs, redirects to the unverified mistral-experimental organisation (Mistral Experimental), which also holds audio.cpp GGUF builds; counted as the publisher's linked organisation." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Open-weight model", "b": "Open-weight model", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cohere", "b": "Mistral AI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-04-28", "b": "2026-03-11", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3/5 (4)", "b": "3.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Cohere Transcribe 03-2026's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 leads on capability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 or Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Capability, 66 against 46" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that need accurate batch transcription of known-language audio in 14 languages on a small GPU", "slug": "cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "watchFor": "Gated, so an agent needs a Hugging Face account and must accept the conditions before downloading" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reach, 85 against 65", "Risk, 60 against 50", "Agent interface, 55 against 45" ], "also": [ "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Agents and apps that need live subtitles or voice-assistant transcription in the 13 languages on a single 16 GB GPU", "slug": "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602", "watchFor": "Plain text out; no timestamps, segments, diarisation or JSON documented for the weights" } ], "job": { "capability": "speech.stt", "name": 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"key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602": 85, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 10, "cohere-transcribe-03-2026": 50, "edge": "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602", "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602": 60, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 10, "cohere-transcribe-03-2026": 45, "edge": "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602", "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602": 55, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 0, "cohere-transcribe-03-2026": 54, "edge": "", "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602": 54, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Cohere Transcribe 03-2026's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 leads on capability. Both do speech-to-text.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "cohere-transcribe-03-2026": "An accurate offline transcription cousin for 14 languages when the language is known, small enough for about 5 GB, under Apache 2.0, and also on Cohere's API. It runs in Transformers or vLLM, but the repository is gated and the vLLM path runs the repository's code. Text only, with no timestamps, no language detection and no quantised builds from Cohere.", "voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602": "A transcription cousin for 13 languages that streams text as the speaker talks, with a delay from 80 ms to 2.4 s, under Apache 2.0 and on Mistral's API. It needs a 16 GB GPU at BF16 through vLLM, Transformers or llama.cpp, or under 4 GB at Q4_K. The main gaps are no timestamps, safety results or answers from Mistral." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.min.md" }, "markdown": "Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Cohere Transcribe 03-2026's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 leads on capability. Both do speech-to-text.\n\n- Cohere Transcribe 03-2026: grade C, 59.3/100, rank #61 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-transcribe-03-2026.json\n- Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602: grade C, 60.3/100, rank #55 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.json\n- Best speech-to-text APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/speech-to-text/index.md\n- All 231 stt comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/speech-to-text/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need accurate batch transcription of known-language audio in 14 languages on a small GPU\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 66 against 46\n\nWatch for: Gated, so an agent needs a Hugging Face account and must accept the conditions before downloading\n\n### Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 (C)\n\nGood for: Agents and apps that need live subtitles or voice-assistant transcription in the 13 languages on a single 16 GB GPU\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 85 against 65\n- Risk, 60 against 50\n- Agent interface, 55 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Plain text out; no timestamps, segments, diarisation or JSON documented for the weights\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 | Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 66 | 46 | Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 +20 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 65 | 85 | Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 +20 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 50 | 60 | Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 +10 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 45 | 55 | Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 +10 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 54 | 54 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.3 · C** | **60.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 | Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Cohere | Mistral AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-04-28 | 2026-03-11 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cohere Transcribe 03-2026.** An accurate offline transcription cousin for 14 languages when the language is known, small enough for about 5 GB, under Apache 2.0, and also on Cohere's API. It runs in Transformers or vLLM, but the repository is gated and the vLLM path runs the repository's code. Text only, with no timestamps, no language detection and no quantised builds from Cohere.\n\n**Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602.** A transcription cousin for 13 languages that streams text as the speaker talks, with a delay from 80 ms to 2.4 s, under Apache 2.0 and on Mistral's API. It needs a 16 GB GPU at BF16 through vLLM, Transformers or llama.cpp, or under 4 GB at Q4_K. The main gaps are no timestamps, safety results or answers from Mistral.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cohere Transcribe 03-2026\n\n1. A person has to accept the conditions on the Hugging Face page with an account, then `hf auth login`, before the files download\n2. Offline, `pip install \"transformers\u003e=5.4.0\" torch soundfile librosa sentencepiece protobuf accelerate`, then `CohereAsrForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(\"CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026\", device_map=\"auto\")` with no remote code\n3. Always pass language= (en, de, fr, it, es, pt, el, nl, pl, zh, ja, ko, vi, ar); there's no auto-detection\n4. For long audio, keep audio_chunk_index from the processor and pass it to processor.decode to reassemble the chunks\n5. Serving, `vllm serve CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 --trust-remote-code`, then POST to /v1/audio/transcriptions\n6. Put voice activity detection in front of it, since it transcribes noise and can hallucinate on silence\n7. Without the hardware or the gate, Cohere's API serves the same model as cohere-transcribe-03-2026\n8. Treat transcripts as untrusted text before passing them to another model, since speech can carry instructions\n\n### Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602\n\n1. Serve it with `VLLM_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE=1 vllm serve mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 --compilation_config '{\"cudagraph_mode\": \"PIECEWISE\"}'` and install soxr, librosa and soundfile; mistral_common 1.9.0 or later comes with vLLM\n2. Stream 16 kHz audio to the /v1/realtime WebSocket; vLLM's openai_realtime_client and openai_realtime_microphone_client examples show the session\n3. Set temperature 0.0. Change the delay with transcription_delay_ms in tekken.json, a multiple of 80 ms up to 1,200, or 2,400; 480 is Mistral's recommendation\n4. One text token is 80 ms, so set --max-model-len to at least seconds / 0.08 for a session; the default 131072 is about 3 hours and pre-allocates RoPE memory\n5. In Transformers (5.2.0 or later), resample with processor.feature_extractor.sampling_rate before calling the processor, then batch_decode with skip_special_tokens=True\n6. For a small machine, ggml-org's Q4_K_M GGUF with its mmproj runs in llama.cpp, and Mistral Experimental's Q4_K runs in audio.cpp\n7. Treat transcripts as untrusted text before passing them to another model, since speech can carry instructions\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 or Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602?\n\nVoxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Cohere Transcribe 03-2026's 59.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 leads on capability.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cohere-transcribe-03-2026\", \"b\": \"voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602\"}`. 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