Voxtral Transcribe 2 (Mini Transcribe V2 + Voxtral Realtime)
13 languages (en, zh, hi, es, ar, fr, pt, ru, de, ja, ko, it, nl). Batch model is API-only ('Premier' license); Realtime has open weights. Replaced voxtral-mini-2507 / Voxtral Mini Transcribe (deprecated 2026-02-27, retired 2026-05-31). Tech report arXiv 2602.11298. Accuracy claims are Mistral's.
- Input
- audio
- Output
- text
- License
- apache-2.0
- Pricing
- per minute batch: $0.003 · per minute realtime: $0.006 (USD per minute of audio (voxtral-mini-2602 batch / voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral API (batch) | voxtral-mini-2602 | https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions | docs |
| Mistral API (realtime) | voxtral-mini-transcribe-realtime-2602 | — | docs |
| Hugging Face (Realtime, open weights) | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | — |
| Web app | — | chat.mistral.ai | — |
Notable capabilities (2)
- Open-weight realtime ASR under 200 ms: Voxtral Realtime (4B, Apache 2.0) reaches sub-200 ms latency; at 480 ms delay Mistral reports 1-2% WER. source
- Cheap batch transcription with diarization: Mini Transcribe V2: ~4% WER on FLEURS at $0.003/min with speaker diarization, word timestamps, context biasing (up to 100 terms) and audio up to 3 hours. source
curl https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions -H "Authorization: Bearer $MISTRAL_API_KEY" \
-F model=voxtral-mini-2602 -F file=@audio.mp3
Sources: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2 · https://docs.mistral.ai/models/overview
Timeline entry
- Mistral releases Voxtral TTS, an open-weight 4B text-to-speech model with 3-second voice cloning ★★★
On 2026-03-23 Mistral launched Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech model: a 4B-parameter model with open weights (CC BY-NC 4.0) that clones a voice from ~3 seconds of audio in 9 languages and, per Mistral, beats ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in 68.4% of human preference tests, priced at $0.016 per 1K…
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