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The 4-bit build fits 32 GB.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b.json", "dns": "nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B", "license": "OpenMDW-1.1", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-FP8" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-NVFP4" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 repositories are not gated (checked 2026-11-10).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use under OpenMDW-1.1, a permissive licence with no use policy or threshold. Running it yourself costs the hardware: 21.6 GB at 4 bits (NVFP4), 34.7 GB in FP8 or 67.5 GB in BF16. DeepInfra serves it for those without a GPU (checked 2026-11-10).", "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 2026-11-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.batch", "speech.languages", "speech.diarisation", "speech.translation", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "speech-to-text", "asr", "multilingual", "translation", "diarization", "timestamps", "long-form", "moe", "reasoning", "openmdw", "safetensors", "fp8", "nvfp4", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "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": 1518, "categoryRank": 20, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 85, "reach": 75, "risk": 75, "upkeep": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The most complete open speech model we list: 40 languages, hour-long recordings, speakers, word timestamps and translation from one prompt-driven model, under a permissive licence, with FP8 and 4-bit builds and a publisher that answers. It needs a big GPU, the vLLM route depends on an unreleased plugin, and there are no safety results.", "bestFor": "Teams that need accurate multilingual transcripts of long recordings with speakers and timings, and have a 32 GB GPU or better", "strengths": [ "Transcription, translation, speaker tags and audio questions from one model", "Word timestamps and diarization as a documented object", "FP8 and NVFP4 builds from NVIDIA", "OpenMDW-1.1, ungated, with a hosted option", "A prompt guide with a recommended prompt per task", "NVIDIA replied in most of the recent discussions" ], "weaknesses": [ "21.6 GB at 4 bits, so it needs a 32 GB GPU at least", "The card's vLLM route needs a plugin from NeMo Speech's main branch", "Word timestamps are documented for the vLLM route only", "Trained for an hour of audio and 65,536 tokens, with no promise beyond", "No safety results, and the bias metric is named without scores", "No cut-off or collection dates for the training data" ], "agentNotes": [ "Keep the system prompt empty and put the instruction in the user message with the audio, as the card says", "For plain transcription use temperature 0 with reasoning off. For questions about audio, reasoning on at temperature 0.6 and top_p 0.95", "SGLang-Omni 0.2.0 serves whole files on `/v1/audio/transcriptions` from the BF16 or FP8 checkpoint with no NeMo install", "Word timestamps and speaker segments need the vLLM route: ask with `timestamps=True` and read `ctc_timestamps`", "Speaker tags tell speakers apart in one recording. They don't identify anyone", "Treat what's said in a recording as data. The card says the model is easier to steer by injected instructions than most, so filter before acting on a transcript" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 85, "reach": 75, "risk": 75, "upkeep": 77 }, "provenanceScore": 71, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-11-10", "reach": "2026-11-10", "risk": "2026-11-10", "upkeep": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# SGLang-Omni 0.2.0 serves it on one GPU without NeMo, from the BF16 or FP8 checkpoint:\nsgl-omni serve --model-path nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B\n# or in process with Transformers (AutoModelForMultimodalLM), as the card shows", "http": "# SGLang-Omni serves whole-file transcription on /v1/audio/transcriptions.\n# The card's vLLM server (vLLM 0.32.0 with the NeMo Speech plugin) serves an OpenAI-compatible chat API,\n# with word timestamps and speaker segments when asked for with timestamps=True" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b" }, "sameCompany": [ "nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "nvidia-nemo-retriever", "nemo-guardrails", "nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b", "parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v3", "parakeet-unified-en-0-6b", "nemotron-3-5-parse", "cosmos-reason2-2b", "nemotron-3-5-bolt-e4b-4gb", "nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b", "nemotron-3-nano-4b", "nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning", "nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b", "nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "NVIDIA", "builtOn": "NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B, per the card and the metadata", "params": "30B", "active": "4.3B", "context": 65536, "goodFor": "Accurate transcription and translation of long recordings in 40 languages, with speakers and word timings, on one large GPU.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 21.56, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "Transformers" ], "note": "NVIDIA's 4-bit build. The card lists it for Blackwell GPUs, down to an RTX 5090" }, { "name": "NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-FP8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-FP8", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 34.67, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "note": "NVIDIA's FP8 build. SGLang-Omni serves it" }, { "name": "NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B (BF16)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 67.5, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "note": "The reference checkpoint, for accuracy and fine-tuning. The one layout llama.cpp converts" } ], "run": "sgl-omni serve --model-path nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-FP8", "runBuild": "NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-FP8", "checked": "2026-11-10", "minMemoryGB": 32 }, "family": { "lab": "NVIDIA (Nemotron)", "family": "Nemotron 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#nvidia", "others": [ { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active (31.6B per the safetensors index)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-Base-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active", "listing": 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The domain registration date is carried from the RDAP check made for nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b on 21 October 2026.", "Nothing is hosted under this listing, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the commit history, 13 commits from 27 to 29 October 2026.", "security.txt is carried from our other NVIDIA listings and wasn't re-read." ], "score": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b.json" }, "answer": "Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B's 47.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "parakeet-unified-en-0-6b", "name": "Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B", "vendor": "NVIDIA", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo", "kind": "weights", "category": "speech-to-text", "summary": "Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B is NVIDIA's open-weight English speech recognition model, a 600M FastConformer encoder with an RNN-T decoder trained for both offline and streaming use down to 160 ms of latency, with punctuation, published as a NeMo archive.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parakeet-unified-en-0-6b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.json", "dns": "parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b", "license": "NVIDIA Open Model License", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository is not gated (checked 2026-11-10).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under the NVIDIA Open Model License. Running it yourself costs little hardware, a 2.47 GB NeMo archive in FP32 (checked 2026-11-10).", "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 2026-11-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.batch", "speech.streaming", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "speech-to-text", "asr", "english", "streaming", "fastconformer", "rnnt", "nemo", "nvidia-open-model-license", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-06-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 47.5, "grade": "D", "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": 1518, "categoryRank": 31, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 35, "reach": 50, "risk": 35, "upkeep": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One English model for batch and live transcription, with a well-documented data list and an NVIDIA team that answers. 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English only", "For live audio use NeMo's chunked RNN-T streaming script with a 5.6 s left context, and pick the chunk and right context from the card's table", "Below 240 ms of latency accuracy drops, and at 80 ms NVIDIA recommends its nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b instead", "If you need word timestamps, use Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 47.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 35, "reach": 50, "risk": 35, "upkeep": 79 }, "provenanceScore": 74, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-11-10", "reach": "2026-11-10", "risk": "2026-11-10", "upkeep": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U \"nemo_toolkit[asr]\"\npython -c \"import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr; m = nemo_asr.models.ASRModel.from_pretrained(model_name='nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b'); print(m.transcribe(['speech.wav'])[0].text)\"", "http": "# no HTTP server ships with it. For streaming, NeMo's script:\npython examples/asr/asr_chunked_inference/rnnt/speech_to_text_streaming_infer_rnnt.py \\\n pretrained_name=nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b dataset_manifest=manifest.json \\\n left_context_secs=5.6 chunk_secs=0.56 right_context_secs=0.56 att_context_size_as_chunk=true" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/parakeet-unified-en-0-6b" }, "sameCompany": [ "nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "nvidia-nemo-retriever", "nemo-guardrails", "nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b", "nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b", "parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v3", "nemotron-3-5-parse", "cosmos-reason2-2b", "nemotron-3-5-bolt-e4b-4gb", "nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b", "nemotron-3-nano-4b", "nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning", "nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b", "nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "NVIDIA", "params": "0.6B", "goodFor": "English transcription from one model in both batch and live use, with punctuation and capitalisation, where latency of 160 ms to 2 s matters.", "runtimes": [], "builds": [ { "name": "parakeet-unified-en-0.6b.nemo", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b/blob/main/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b.nemo", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp32", "sizeGB": 2.47, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "nemo", "runsOn": [ "NeMo" ], "note": "A NeMo archive holding a PyTorch checkpoint (pickle), loaded by NeMo's ASRModel.from_pretrained. The only build" } ], "run": "python -c \"import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr; print(nemo_asr.models.ASRModel.from_pretrained(model_name='nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b').transcribe(['speech.wav'])[0].text)\"", "runBuild": "parakeet-unified-en-0.6b.nemo", "checked": "2026-11-10", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "NVIDIA (Nemotron)", "family": "Parakeet", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#nvidia", "others": [ { "name": "parakeet-rnnt-1.1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-1.1b", "params": "1.1B" }, { "name": "parakeet-ctc-1.1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-ctc-1.1b", "params": "1.1B" }, { "name": "parakeet-rnnt-0.6b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-0.6b", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "parakeet-ctc-0.6b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-ctc-0.6b", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "parakeet-tdt-1.1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-1.1b", "params": "1.1B" }, { "name": "parakeet-tdt_ctc-1.1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt_ctc-1.1b", "params": "1.1B" }, { "name": "parakeet-tdt_ctc-0.6b-ja", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt_ctc-0.6b-ja", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m", "params": "110M" }, { "name": "parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "parakeet-rnnt-110m-da-dk", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-110m-da-dk", "params": "110M" }, { "name": "parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3", "params": "0.6B (627M per the safetensors count)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v3" }, { "name": "parakeet_realtime_eou_120m-v1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet_realtime_eou_120m-v1", "params": "120M" }, { "name": "multitalker-parakeet-streaming-0.6b-v1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/multitalker-parakeet-streaming-0.6b-v1", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "parakeet-ctc-0.6b-Vietnamese", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-ctc-0.6b-Vietnamese", "params": "0.6B" } ], "olderCount": 47 }, "area": "voice", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "NVIDIA Corporation", "domain": "nvidia.com", "domainRegistered": "1993-04-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license/", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b/commits/main", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-10", "notes": [ "The model sits in NVIDIA's Hugging Face organisation and the card's governing terms are the NVIDIA Open Model License. The domain registration date is carried from the RDAP check made for nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b on 21 October 2026.", "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the commit history, 19 commits from 7 April to 9 June 2026, mostly card edits.", "www.nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 403 at the 21 October 2026 check for nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b. The card links NVIDIA's security vulnerability form." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.json" }, "edges": [ { "by": 50, "category": "interface", "leads": "nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b", "name": "Agent interface", "reasons": { "a": "Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,482 characters), with a template in tokenizer_config.json too. Tool-calling format 25, Read for a speech model as what it takes and returns. Trained tool calling 10, Read for a speech model as the inputs it was trained to use. Structured output 15, Read for a speech model as typed outputs. Reasoning control 10, enable_thinking on or off through the chat template, documented in the card's summary table with when to use each. Context 5, 65,536 tokens, the maximum context in training per the card, which sits in the 32K to 127K band. 20 + 25 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 85.", "b": "Chat template 0, no chat template and no prompt. Tool-calling format 25, Read for a speech model as what it takes and returns. Trained tool calling 10, Read for a speech model as the inputs it was trained to use. Structured output 0, Read for a speech model as typed outputs. Reasoning control 0, A speech recognition model with no reasoning. Context 0, no token context is stated. 0 + 25 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 35." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 35 } }, { "by": 40, "category": "risk", "leads": "nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b", "name": "Risk", "reasons": { "a": "File safety 25, safetensors only in all three repositories, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python. Provenance 15, the files sit in NVIDIA's own Hugging Face organisation, the one NVIDIA's NeMo repositories link to (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the large files (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results. Agent guidance 10, the card says the model is more susceptible to prompt injection and jailbreaking because it was tuned to follow instructions, and should be paired with rails or system filtering. Licence risk 15, OpenMDW-1.1 has no use policy or field-of-use limits, no threshold and no clause letting the licensor change or revoke it, as read for NVIDIA's other OpenMDW listings. Security programme 10, the card says to report security vulnerabilities through NVIDIA's submission form (5), and NVIDIA PSIRT publishes a coordinated disclosure policy and public security bulletins, per NVIDIA's other listings (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.", "b": "File safety 0, the only weights file is parakeet-unified-en-0.6b.nemo, a NeMo archive whose weights are a PyTorch checkpoint read with torch.load, a pickle format, and the card's documented path loads it. Provenance 15, the file sits in NVIDIA's own Hugging Face organisation, the one NVIDIA's NeMo repositories link to (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the archive and git hashes for the rest (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 5, General cautions only. Licence risk 5, 15 less 5 for a use policy beyond the law (NVIDIA's Trustworthy AI terms and the guardrail clause) and 5 for terms the licensor can change or revoke, as read for NVIDIA's other listings under the same licence. Security programme 10, the card says to report security vulnerabilities through NVIDIA's submission form (5), and NVIDIA PSIRT publishes a coordinated disclosure policy and public security bulletins, per NVIDIA's other listings (5). 0 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 10 = 35." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 35 } }, { "by": 25, "category": "reach", "leads": "nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b", "name": "Reach", "reasons": { "a": "Memory 20, the smallest build is NVIDIA's NVFP4 repository, 21.56 GB, and 21.56 GB × 1.2 = 25.9 GB, within 32 GB. FP8 is 34.67 GB and BF16 67.5 GB. Runtimes 15, Released Transformers 5.22.2 has the nemotron3_5_transcribe model (5). Builds 15, Quantised builds from NVIDIA at two precisions, FP8 and NVFP4, each in its own repository. Terms 10, OpenMDW-1.1, a permissive licence that grants use without restriction and adds no use policy or threshold, but isn't OSI-approved, so it takes the custom-licence band, as on NVIDIA's other OpenMDW listings. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for all three repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, the card gives a release on build.nvidia.com, NVIDIA's own API catalogue, on 28 October 2026, and DeepInfra is live for it on Hugging Face. 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 75.", "b": "Memory 30, the only build is the FP32 NeMo archive, 2.47 GB, and 2.47 GB × 1.2 = 3.0 GB, under 16 GB. Runtimes 0, none of the six runs it in a released version. Builds 0, NVIDIA publishes no quantised build of it. Terms 10, the NVIDIA Open Model License is a custom licence, not OSI-approved, that lets anyone use the model commercially for free under a use policy, which is the custom-licence band, as on NVIDIA's other listings. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false on 10 November 2026, so the file downloads with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face's inference provider mapping is empty on 10 November 2026, and the card names no NVIDIA API that serves it. 30 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 10 + 0 = 50." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 50 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Open-weight model", "b": "Open-weight model", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "NVIDIA", "b": "NVIDIA", "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": "OpenMDW-1.1", "b": "NVIDIA Open Model License", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-29", "b": "2026-06-09", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "2025-10-24", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy 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with speakers and timings, and have a 32 GB GPU or better", "slug": "nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b", "watchFor": "21.6 GB at 4 bits, so it needs a 32 GB GPU at least" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "English voice agents and captioning that want one small model for both recorded and live audio and already run NeMo", "slug": "parakeet-unified-en-0-6b", "watchFor": "The only file is a NeMo archive holding a pickle checkpoint" } ], "history": null, "job": { "capability": "speech.stt", "name": "Speech-to-text" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b.json", "title": "Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 vs Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-transcribe-03-2026-vs-parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.json", "title": "Cohere Transcribe 03-2026 vs 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It runs only in NVIDIA NeMo from a pickle-format archive, with no safetensors, GGUF or quantised build, returns plain text without timestamps, and hasn't changed since June." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b-vs-parakeet-unified-en-0-6b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b-vs-parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b-vs-parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b-vs-parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B's 47.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do speech-to-text.\n\n- Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B: grade C, 61/100, rank #79 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b.json\n- Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B: grade D, 47.5/100, rank #154 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.json\n- Best speech-to-text APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/speech-to-text/index.md\n- All 386 stt comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/speech-to-text/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that need accurate multilingual transcripts of long recordings with speakers and timings, and have a 32 GB GPU or better\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 75 against 50\n- Risk, 75 against 35\n- Agent interface, 85 against 35\n\nWatch for: 21.6 GB at 4 bits, so it needs a 32 GB GPU at least\n\n### Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B (D)\n\nGood for: English voice agents and captioning that want one small model for both recorded and live audio and already run NeMo\n\nWatch for: The only file is a NeMo archive holding a pickle checkpoint\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Agent interface: Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B +50\n\n- Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B (85): Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,482 characters), with a template in tokenizer_config.json too. Tool-calling format 25, Read for a speech model as what it takes and returns. Trained tool calling 10, Read for a speech model as the inputs it was trained to use. Structured output 15, Read for a speech model as typed outputs. Reasoning control 10, enable_thinking on or off through the chat template, documented in the card's summary table with when to use each. Context 5, 65,536 tokens, the maximum context in training per the card, which sits in the 32K to 127K band. 20 + 25 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 85.\n- Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B (35): Chat template 0, no chat template and no prompt. Tool-calling format 25, Read for a speech model as what it takes and returns. Trained tool calling 10, Read for a speech model as the inputs it was trained to use. Structured output 0, Read for a speech model as typed outputs. Reasoning control 0, A speech recognition model with no reasoning. Context 0, no token context is stated. 0 + 25 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 35.\n\n### Risk: Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B +40\n\n- Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B (75): File safety 25, safetensors only in all three repositories, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python. Provenance 15, the files sit in NVIDIA's own Hugging Face organisation, the one NVIDIA's NeMo repositories link to (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the large files (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results. Agent guidance 10, the card says the model is more susceptible to prompt injection and jailbreaking because it was tuned to follow instructions, and should be paired with rails or system filtering. Licence risk 15, OpenMDW-1.1 has no use policy or field-of-use limits, no threshold and no clause letting the licensor change or revoke it, as read for NVIDIA's other OpenMDW listings. Security programme 10, the card says to report security vulnerabilities through NVIDIA's submission form (5), and NVIDIA PSIRT publishes a coordinated disclosure policy and public security bulletins, per NVIDIA's other listings (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.\n- Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B (35): File safety 0, the only weights file is parakeet-unified-en-0.6b.nemo, a NeMo archive whose weights are a PyTorch checkpoint read with torch.load, a pickle format, and the card's documented path loads it. Provenance 15, the file sits in NVIDIA's own Hugging Face organisation, the one NVIDIA's NeMo repositories link to (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the archive and git hashes for the rest (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 5, General cautions only. Licence risk 5, 15 less 5 for a use policy beyond the law (NVIDIA's Trustworthy AI terms and the guardrail clause) and 5 for terms the licensor can change or revoke, as read for NVIDIA's other listings under the same licence. Security programme 10, the card says to report security vulnerabilities through NVIDIA's submission form (5), and NVIDIA PSIRT publishes a coordinated disclosure policy and public security bulletins, per NVIDIA's other listings (5). 0 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 10 = 35.\n\n### Reach: Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B +25\n\n- Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B (75): Memory 20, the smallest build is NVIDIA's NVFP4 repository, 21.56 GB, and 21.56 GB × 1.2 = 25.9 GB, within 32 GB. FP8 is 34.67 GB and BF16 67.5 GB. Runtimes 15, Released Transformers 5.22.2 has the nemotron3_5_transcribe model (5). Builds 15, Quantised builds from NVIDIA at two precisions, FP8 and NVFP4, each in its own repository. Terms 10, OpenMDW-1.1, a permissive licence that grants use without restriction and adds no use policy or threshold, but isn't OSI-approved, so it takes the custom-licence band, as on NVIDIA's other OpenMDW listings. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for all three repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, the card gives a release on build.nvidia.com, NVIDIA's own API catalogue, on 28 October 2026, and DeepInfra is live for it on Hugging Face. 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 75.\n- Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B (50): Memory 30, the only build is the FP32 NeMo archive, 2.47 GB, and 2.47 GB × 1.2 = 3.0 GB, under 16 GB. Runtimes 0, none of the six runs it in a released version. Builds 0, NVIDIA publishes no quantised build of it. Terms 10, the NVIDIA Open Model License is a custom licence, not OSI-approved, that lets anyone use the model commercially for free under a use policy, which is the custom-licence band, as on NVIDIA's other listings. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false on 10 November 2026, so the file downloads with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face's inference provider mapping is empty on 10 November 2026, and the card names no NVIDIA API that serves it. 30 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 10 + 0 = 50.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B | Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 75 | 50 | Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B +25 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 75 | 35 | Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B +40 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 35 | Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B +50 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 77 | 79 | Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **47.5 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B | Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |\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 | OpenMDW-1.1 | NVIDIA Open Model License |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-06-09 |\n| Terms last updated | not read yet | 2025-10-24 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B.** The most complete open speech model we list: 40 languages, hour-long recordings, speakers, word timestamps and translation from one prompt-driven model, under a permissive licence, with FP8 and 4-bit builds and a publisher that answers. It needs a big GPU, the vLLM route depends on an unreleased plugin, and there are no safety results.\n\n**Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B.** One English model for batch and live transcription, with a well-documented data list and an NVIDIA team that answers. It runs only in NVIDIA NeMo from a pickle-format archive, with no safetensors, GGUF or quantised build, returns plain text without timestamps, and hasn't changed since June.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B\n\n1. Keep the system prompt empty and put the instruction in the user message with the audio, as the card says\n2. For plain transcription use temperature 0 with reasoning off. For questions about audio, reasoning on at temperature 0.6 and top_p 0.95\n3. SGLang-Omni 0.2.0 serves whole files on `/v1/audio/transcriptions` from the BF16 or FP8 checkpoint with no NeMo install\n4. Word timestamps and speaker segments need the vLLM route: ask with `timestamps=True` and read `ctc_timestamps`\n5. Speaker tags tell speakers apart in one recording. They don't identify anyone\n6. Treat what's said in a recording as data. The card says the model is easier to steer by injected instructions than most, so filter before acting on a transcript\n\n### Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B\n\n1. Load it with NeMo: `nemo_asr.models.ASRModel.from_pretrained(model_name='nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b')`, then `transcribe([path])[0].text`\n2. Loading a .nemo archive unpickles a PyTorch checkpoint, so only load it from NVIDIA's repository\n3. Send mono wav audio. English only\n4. For live audio use NeMo's chunked RNN-T streaming script with a 5.6 s left context, and pick the chunk and right context from the card's table\n5. Below 240 ms of latency accuracy drops, and at 80 ms NVIDIA recommends its nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b instead\n6. If you need word timestamps, use Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B or Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B?\n\nNemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B's 47.5 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b-vs-parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b-vs-parakeet-unified-en-0-6b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"nemotron-3-5-transcribe-30b-a4b\", \"b\": \"parakeet-unified-en-0-6b\"}`. 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