canary-1b-v2 (nvidia) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: canary-1b-v2 (nvidia)
Author: Nvidia

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Aug 4, 2025

Provider: Nvidia
Release date: Aug 4, 2025; Hugging Face
Parameters: 979M total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Audio to Text; Hugging Face
License: CC BY 4.0; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 3.9 GB of weights as published (F32), about 1 GB at 8-bit, about 0.5 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
44	Open ASRSpeech · as “nvidia/canary-1b-v2”	Speech	8.43 WER	62

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