Cohere Transcribe (03-2026)
Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) is a released vision model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
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- Teams evaluating vision
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
- Family
- Cohere Transcribe
- Released
- 2026-03-01
- Parameters
- 2B
- Architecture
- Conformer
- Specialization
- speech-recognition
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Cohere's state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Transcribe is a 2B parameter Conformer-based encoder-decoder model trained from scratch for high-fidelity transcription across 14 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Polish, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Arabic. Can process 525 minutes of audio per minute. Achieves 5.42 WER on Hugging Face Open ASR leaderboard.
Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) is an open-source model in the Cohere Transcribe family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input and audio. Headline tracked benchmarks include LibriSpeech WER (test-clean) 1.3 and Open ASR Leaderboard (average WER) 5.4.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Benchmark scores(2)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| LibriSpeech WER (test-clean) | 1.3 | test-clean | https://cohere.com/blog/transcribe |
| Open ASR Leaderboard (average WER) | 5.4 | avg-11-datasets | https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
When was Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) released?
Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) was released on 2026-03-01.
What benchmarks has Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) been tested on?
Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) has been evaluated on 2 benchmarks, including LibriSpeech WER (test-clean), Open ASR Leaderboard (average WER).
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.