LLM Reference

Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR

Released
2026-04-29
Last refreshed
2026-04-30
Status
Researched 45d ago
Open SourceCommercial use allowedMultimodalVision

Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

Use it for

  • 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
Specifications
Released
2026-04-29
Parameters
2B
Specialization
speech-recognition
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0(OSI)Commercial use allowed
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Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

IBM Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR (Non-AutoRegressive) is a high-throughput speech recognition model that generates transcriptions in a single forward pass rather than token-by-token. Architecture: 440M CTC speech encoder (16-layer Conformer) + 160M Q-Former projector + 1B bidirectional LLM editor (LoRA-adapted Granite-4.0-1b-base). Achieves ~1820x real-time factor on a single H100 GPU at batch size 128 and 1.29% WER on LibriSpeech Clean. Optimized for latency-sensitive production deployments. Apache 2.0 license.

Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR is an open-source model in the Granite 4.1 family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input and audio. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR yet.

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

MultimodalAudio

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.