Which Parakeet Ultra providers offer zero data retention?

PrimeIntellect is the Parakeet Ultra provider with zero data retention.

What are the closest alternatives to Parakeet Ultra?

The closest alternatives, matched on model kind and release date with no comparable price, are Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe by NVIDIA, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 by NVIDIA, and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash by Microsoft.

Is Parakeet Ultra open source or open weights?

Parakeet Ultra is open weights.

Where can I download the Parakeet Ultra weights?

The weights are available on the Hugging Face repository moondream/parakeet-ultra.

Who made Parakeet Ultra and when was it released?

Parakeet Ultra was made by Moondream and released on September 22, 2026.

Is Parakeet Ultra free to use?

No, transcription costs $0.06 per hour, though the model has open weights.

How much does Parakeet Ultra cost per use?

Parakeet Ultra costs $0.06 per hour for transcription.

Parakeet Ultra

Moondream

Announcement

Parakeet Ultra

Developer	Moondream
Release date	September 22, 2026
Parameters	627M
Input	Audio
Output	Transcription
Weights	Open weights
Website	moondream.ai
Links	Model card Hugging Face

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Moondream

transcription: $0.06
Released: 1mo ago

Moondream's Parakeet Ultra is a post-trained version of NVIDIA's parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3, introduced alongside its compressed sibling model Parakeet Redux. Moondream says the additional training lowered its average word error rate in every evaluation group it tested, including an 18% lower average than the original on the 25-language FLEURS evaluation. It is built for automatic speech recognition in 25 languages and designed to run on GPUs.