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Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3vs.Voxtral Small Transcribe 3

Which model is better?

Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 does better in independent tests.

Independent tests

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 30 of 2

Voxtral Small Transcribe 3ahead1 of 2

Artificial Analysis, Open Danish ASR Leaderboard

Popularity

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 30

Voxtral Small Transcribe 30

out of 100

Weights and access

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3n/a

Voxtral Small Transcribe 3n/a

Size

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 34 B

Voxtral Small Transcribe 3n/a

Parameters

Pick Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 for

leaning Artificial Analysis

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Open Danish ASR Leaderboard

Shared tests

Independent evaluators and leaderboards only, the newest shared snapshot per evaluator. With 95 % ranges a lead counts when they do not overlap; for hit rates, when it holds in a 95 % test. Without any uncertainty figure at most “slightly ahead”.

Artificial Analysis

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 is clearly ahead in 0 of 14 subtests and slightly in 12, Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 in 0 clearly and slightly in 2.

Artificial Analysis batch speed factor: p05

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 367.17

Voxtral Small Transcribe 348.41

as of October 24, 2026

Artificial Analysis daily batch median speed factor: 2026-10-21

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 376.98

Voxtral Small Transcribe 358.38

as of October 24, 2026

Artificial Analysis batch speed factor: q25

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 371.01

Voxtral Small Transcribe 356.22

as of October 24, 2026

Show all 14 subtests

Subtest	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3	Verdict
Artificial Analysis batch speed factor: p05	67.17	48.41	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis daily batch median speed factor: 2026-10-21	76.98	58.38	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis batch speed factor: q25	71.01	56.22	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis daily batch median speed factor: 2026-10-24	81.91	65.55	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Text WER: AgentTalk (lower is better)	2.0 %	1.6 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis batch speed factor: p95	83.81	71.67	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis daily batch median speed factor: 2026-10-22	71.47	61.41	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis batch speed factor: median	74.75	64.47	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis batch speed factor: q75	76.98	66.70	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis daily batch median speed factor: 2026-10-23	72.88	63.42	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis daily batch median speed factor: 2026-10-20	74.71	66.62	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Text AA-WER index (lower is better)	2.2 %	2.1 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Text WER: Earnings22-Cleaned-AA (lower is better)	3.4 %	3.5 %	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Text WER: VoxPopuli-Cleaned-AA (lower is better)	1.4 %	1.5 %	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead

Source · latest October 24, 2026

Open Danish ASR Leaderboard

Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead

Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 is clearly ahead in 9 of 13 subtests and slightly in 1, Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 in 1 clearly and slightly in 1. 1 is level.

Open Danish ASR Leaderboard FLEURS Danish da_dk CER

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 32.2 %

Voxtral Small Transcribe 31.6 %

95 % ranges 1.9 % to 2.5 % and 1.4 % to 1.8 %, 930 tasks, lower is better, as of October 24, 2026

Open Danish ASR Leaderboard FLEURS Danish da_dk WER

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 35.9 %

Voxtral Small Transcribe 34.4 %

95 % ranges 5.4 % to 6.4 % and 4.0 % to 4.9 %, 930 tasks, lower is better, as of October 24, 2026

Open Danish ASR Leaderboard CoRal v3 read-aloud WER

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 321.3 %

Voxtral Small Transcribe 317.6 %

95 % ranges 20.8 % to 21.7 % and 17.2 % to 18.1 %, 9,122 tasks, lower is better, as of October 24, 2026

Show all 13 subtests

Subtest	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3	Verdict
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard FLEURS Danish da_dk CER (lower is better)	2.2 %	1.6 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard FLEURS Danish da_dk WER (lower is better)	5.9 %	4.4 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard CoRal v3 read-aloud WER (lower is better)	21.3 %	17.6 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard CoRal v3 read-aloud CER (lower is better)	8.4 %	7.3 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard Common Voice Danish WER (lower is better)	10.5 %	9.0 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard FTSpeech test_balanced CER (lower is better)	6.8 %	7.6 %	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard macro mean WER (lower is better)	17.0 %	15.4 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard macro mean CER (lower is better)	8.7 %	8.2 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard CoRal v3 conversation WER (lower is better)	35.1 %	33.2 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard CoRal v3 conversation CER (lower is better)	22.4 %	21.2 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard Common Voice Danish CER (lower is better)	3.8 %	3.5 %	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard FTSpeech test_balanced WER (lower is better)	12.2 %	12.7 %	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 slightly ahead
Open Danish ASR Leaderboard inference speed	5.80	5.70	level

Source · latest October 24, 2026

Vendor figures

Figures from vendor reports that cover both models. They do not count toward the verdict.

Show 4 vendor figures

Figure	Source	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3
Artificial Analysis weighted WER index (lower is better)	Mistral Voxtral 3 announcement and benchmark tables	2.2 %	2.1 %
Diarization benchmark cpWER (lower is better)	Mistral Voxtral 3 announcement and benchmark tables	18.6 %	18.4 %
FLEURS 45 forced transcription WER (lower is better)	Mistral Voxtral 3 announcement and benchmark tables	4.5 %	4.0 %
FLEURS 45 inferred transcription WER (lower is better)	Mistral Voxtral 3 announcement and benchmark tables	4.6 %	4.1 %

All data side by side

Prices are verbatim from the provider, because audio models bill per minute, character or token.

	Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3	Voxtral Small Transcribe 3
Task	Speech to text	Speech to text
Developer	Mistral AI	Mistral AI
Status	Public preview	Public preview
Released	October 20, 2026	October 20, 2026
Runs locally	no	no
Parameters	4 B	n/a
Price	USD 0.0035 per audio minute; cached rate USD 0.00035 per minute	USD 0.004 per audio minute; cached rate USD 0.0004 per minute
Popularity (out of 100)	0	0

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