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Open-weights multilingual ASR models

Among the 43 speech-to-text tools we track, Qwen3-ASR has the 25th-widest language coverage.

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Facts verified Jul 20, 2026Website →

What we know about Qwen3-ASR

Qwen3-ASR sits in the speech-to-text apis category, where it is open-weights multilingual ASR models. We keep this Qwen3-ASR profile grounded in primary sources, each fact dated to when we last confirmed it.

Qwen3-ASR does not publish a public per-minute rate we have been able to verify, so the price figure here stays blank until we can confirm one. We would rather show nothing than a guessed number; if you have a current Qwen3-ASR quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, Qwen3-ASR covers language auto-detection, word-level timestamps, self-host / on-prem option, and websocket streaming api, and does not offer speech translation. Each of those is verified against Qwen3-ASR's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

Qwen3-ASR ranks the 25th-widest language coverage of the 43 speech-to-text tools we track, so where it lands for you depends on which of those matters more.

In total we track 22 verified facts for Qwen3-ASR today, each linking the primary source it came from so you can check our work - and vendor claims we have not measured ourselves are labeled as such on the Qwen3-ASR fact sheet below.

Reviewed by vsref Editorialfacts verified Jul 20, 2026Methodology →

Fact sheet

Pricing
Pricing facts
Batch price per audio minute0.002 $/audio-minJul 20
Streaming price per audio minute0.005 $/audio-minJul 20
Pricing modelusageJul 20
Free tier quota600 min (10 hrs), intl onlyJul 20
Capabilities
Capabilities facts
WER (third-party benchmark)5.8 % WERJul 20
WER (vendor-claimed)~1.63 % WERJul 20
Languages supported52Jul 20
Language auto-detection✓ YesJul 20
Speaker diarization✗ Not availableJul 20
PII redaction✗ Not availableJul 20
Word-level timestamps✓ YesJul 20
Speech translation✗ NoJul 20
Compliance & trust
Compliance & trust facts
Self-host / on-prem option✓ YesJul 20
Model weights licenseApache-2.0Jul 20
Build experience
Build experience facts
Official SDKsPython (pip, vLLM, Transformers); DashScope APIJul 20
Max file size / durationLong audio (toolkit chunking)Jul 20
Websocket streaming API✓ YesJul 20
Commercial
Commercial facts
Model size (parameters)0.6B / 1.7B (+0.6B ForcedAligner)Jul 20
Hardware to self-hostNVIDIA GPU (vLLM / Transformers)Jul 20
Hosted API availableYes - Alibaba Model Studio (DashScope)Jul 20
Project maintenance statusActive - released 2026-01Jul 20
GitHub stars3,191Jul 20

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