parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (nvidia) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (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: 627M 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 2.5 GB of weights as published (F32), about 0.6 GB at 8-bit, about 0.3 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
31	Open ASRSpeech · as “nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3”	Speech	7.04 WER	62

Versions and release history

2 versions in this line since Apr 15, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

Version	Released	Source
parakeet-tdt-0.6B-v3 (nvidia)this model	Aug 4, 20251 year ago	Hugging Face
parakeet-tdt-0.6B-v2 (nvidia)	Apr 15, 20251 year ago	Hugging Face

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