Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-hf (Qwen) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-hf (Qwen)
Author: Alibaba

open weights · top 10 on 1 of 1 · released Jan 28, 2026

Provider: Alibaba
Release date: Jan 28, 2026; Hugging Face
Parameters: 2.3B 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 4.7 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 2.3 GB at 8-bit, about 1.2 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
10	Open ASRSpeech · as “Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-hf”	Speech	6.15 WER	62

Versions and release history

2 versions in this line since Jan 28, 2026, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

Version	Released	Source
Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-hf (Qwen)	Jan 28, 20269 months ago	Hugging Face
Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-hf (Qwen)this model	Jan 28, 20269 months ago	Hugging Face

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