# NVIDIA Parakeet

Tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with 6.05% average WER at 0.6B params. NVIDIA Parakeet is free, with no paid plan attached, at huggingface.co.

## Facts

- **Pricing tier:** Free
- **Works on:** Self-hosted, Web, API
- **Works in browser:** Yes

## Capabilities

- Tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with 6.05% average WER at 0.6B params
- CC-BY-4.0 license, free for commercial and non-commercial use
- RTFx ~3,386 — extremely fast inference relative to accuracy

## FAQ

### What is NVIDIA Parakeet?

NVIDIA Parakeet is listed under Speech & Transcription Engines, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with 6.05% average WER at 0.6B params. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at huggingface.co.

### Is NVIDIA Parakeet free?

NVIDIA Parakeet is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 396 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

### Can I use NVIDIA Parakeet in a browser, or is there an app?

NVIDIA Parakeet works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on self-hosting, the web and an API.

### What can NVIDIA Parakeet do?

NVIDIA Parakeet does 3 things the catalog singles out: Tops the hugging face open asr leaderboard with 6.05% average wer at 0.6b params; cc-by-4.0 license, free for commercial and non-commercial use; rtfx ~3,386 — extremely fast inference relative to accuracy.

### What is the best free alternative to NVIDIA Parakeet?

NVIDIA Canary-Qwen 2.5B is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Speech & Transcription Engines sub-category and is free. sherpa-onnx, faster-whisper and FunASR also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

## Related

- [NVIDIA Parakeet alternatives](https://aitools.flocci.in/alternatives/nvidia-parakeet)
- [Speech & Transcription Engines](https://aitools.flocci.in/category/ai-models-local-execution/speech-transcription-engines)
- [Best free speech and transcription engines](https://aitools.flocci.in/best/best-speech-transcription-engines)
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Source: Flocci AI Tools — https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/nvidia-parakeet

Facts last verified: October 2026