cohere-transcribe-03-2026 (CohereLabs) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: cohere-transcribe-03-2026 (CohereLabs)
Author: Cohere

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Mar 24, 2026

Provider: Cohere
Release date: Mar 24, 2026; Hugging Face
Parameters: 2.1B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Audio to Text; Hugging Face
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 4.1 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 2.1 GB at 8-bit, about 1 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
14	Open ASRSpeech · as “CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026”	Speech	6.72 WER	62

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