Nari Labs launches 40ms speech-to-text at $0.06/hr, claims 9x cheaper than Gemini Transcribe
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-09-12
Nari Labs announced two speech-to-text offerings:
- World's fastest STT endpoint: 40 ms time-to-final-segment (TTFS).
- World's cheapest streaming STT: $0.06/hr, powered by Qwen3-ASR 1.7B on Nari's own inference engine — claimed 3x faster than ElevenLabs Scribe V2 and 9x cheaper than Gemini Transcribe 3.5, with Top 3 accuracy on Coval benchmarks.
- Free for a limited time, framed as part of Nari's mission that "open-source will win — not just in LLMs, but multimodal AI."
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