canary-qwen-2.5b (nvidia) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: canary-qwen-2.5b (nvidia)
Author: Nvidia

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Jun 26, 2025

Provider: Nvidia
Release date: Jun 26, 2025; Hugging Face
Parameters: 2.6B 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 5.1 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 2.6 GB at 8-bit, about 1.3 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
23	Open ASRSpeech · as “nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b”	Speech	6.92 WER	62

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