{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-10-25T23:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"voxtral-mini-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)","org":"Mistral AI","family":"Voxtral","released":"2026-10-20","status":"preview","type":"audio/speech","modality_in":["audio"],"modality_out":["text"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":32000,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"per_minute_batch":0.0035,"per_minute_realtime":0.008,"unit":"USD per minute of audio (voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0 batch / voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0 streaming)","source":"https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0"},"price_line":"$0.0035 per minute, batch","access":[{"provider":"Mistral API (batch)","model_id":"voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0","endpoint":"https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions","docs":"https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0"},{"provider":"Mistral API (realtime, WebSocket)","model_id":"voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0","endpoint":"https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions","docs":"https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Compact 4B transcriber with diarization","detail":"4B-parameter model for 50+ languages with speaker diarization (18.6% macro-average cpWER on Mistral's chart) and timestamps; 'small enough to be deployed in resource-constrained environments'.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3"},{"name":"#5 on Artificial Analysis AA-WER (2.2%)","detail":"Fifth on the Artificial Analysis non-streaming speech-to-text leaderboard (AA-WER 2.2%, $3.50 per 1,000 min), tied in WER with ElevenLabs Scribe v2, read 2026-10-25.","first":false,"discovered":"later","source":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text"},{"name":"Realtime variant with configurable latency and end-of-turn detection","detail":"Voxtral Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 streams over one WebSocket session with latency configurable from 80 ms to 2,400 ms, built-in end-of-turn detection (acoustic + semantic), context biasing and speaker diarization.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0"}],"entry":"2026-10-20-mistral-voxtral-3","notes":"Artificial Analysis speech-to-text (https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text), read 2026-10-25: Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 rank #5, AA-WER 2.2%, $3.50 per 1,000 minutes (Realtime 3 not in that non-streaming ranking). Docs: v3.0, 'Public Preview', 'Premier' tag; no open weights found (unlike the Apache 2.0 Voxtral Realtime 2602 of Feb 2026). Realtime language count is inconsistent on Mistral's page: 35+ in the post body, 40+ on its card. Realtime 3 is also called 'Voxtral Realtime Transcribe 3'. Sibling: voxtral-small-transcribe-3 ($0.004/min, higher accuracy). Succeeds voxtral-transcribe-2 (voxtral-mini-2602 / voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602).","verified":"2026-10-25","body_md":"Cheaper Voxtral 3 transcription model, plus its streaming sibling for voice agents.\n\n```bash\ncurl https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MISTRAL_API_KEY\" \\\n  -F model=voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0 -F file=@audio.mp3\n```\n\nSources: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3 · https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3-0 · https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-3-0 · https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/","standing":{"kind":"speech and audio","newer_count":0,"newer":[],"before":{"id":"voxtral-tts","name":"Voxtral TTS","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-03-23","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-tts/"},"after":null,"weights":"closed","licence":"proprietary","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Closed weights; access is hosted only."}}