Open ASR Leaderboard

by HuggingFace

HuggingFace ASR leaderboard — public WER + RTFx across 8 English test sets.

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TL;DR

Best for tracking SOTA English ASR (WER + RTFx) on 8 public test sets simultaneously. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
Apache-2.0
Stars
★ 235
Last push
2026-08-05
Pricing
free
Platforms
HuggingFace

What it is

The Open ASR Leaderboard scores submitted models on 8 public English test sets — the standard SOTA tracker. Whisper, Conformer, Canary, NeMo Parakeet ranked side-by-side. License: Apache-2.0.

Best for: Tracking SOTA English ASR (WER + RTFx) on 8 public test sets simultaneously.
Watch out for: English-only · 8 test sets (LibriSpeech / SPGISpeech / TED-LIUM / Voxpopuli / Common Voice / Earnings22 / AMI / GigaSpeech). License: Apache-2.0 toolkit.

Install / use

Go to Open ASR Leaderboard huggingface.co

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

Links

GitHub repo ↗

Open ASR Leaderboard vs Whipscribe

FeatureOpen ASR LeaderboardWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsHuggingFaceWeb, API, MCP

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