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Moondream: Parakeet Ultra

moondream/parakeet-ultra

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Parakeet Ultra is Moondream's post-trained version of NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 speech-to-text model, with the same architecture, tokenizer, and 0.6B parameters. It lowers word error rate on the Open ASR Leaderboard English sets (5.80% vs 6.26%) and the 25-language FLEURS set (9.55% vs 11.62%), with larger gains on noisy and long-form audio. Supports 25 European languages and returns transcribed text with segment and word timestamps.

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Price
$0.000017/second
Released
Nov 3, 2026
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Pricing

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Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

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Activity

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API

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Frequently asked questions

Parakeet Ultra is Moondream's post-trained version of NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 speech-to-text model, with the same architecture, tokenizer, and 0.6B parameters. It lowers word error rate on the Open ASR Leaderboard English sets (5.80% vs 6.26%) and the 25-language FLEURS set (9.55% vs 11.62%), with larger gains on noisy and long-form audio.

Parakeet Ultra costs $0.000017/second.

Parakeet Ultra accepts audio as input and returns transcribed text.

Parakeet Ultra was released on November 3, 2026.

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