granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar (ibm-granite) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar (ibm-granite)
Author: IBM

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

Provider: IBM
Release date: Mar 10, 2026; Hugging Face
Parameters: 2.3B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Embeddings; Hugging Face
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 4.5 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 2.3 GB at 8-bit, about 1.1 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
34	Open ASRSpeech · as “ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar”	Speech	7.16 WER	62

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