Parakeet ASR API: Pricing and Specs

Parakeet ASR API

Parakeet ASR is a speech-to-text model by NVIDIA, available on the Venice API as nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3. It runs privately, with zero data retention.

Parakeet ASR API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3`	Standard	Private	$0.36 / audio hr

Parakeet ASR specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	NVIDIA
Released	Oct 10, 2025
Privacy	Private
Status	Stable
Open weights	Yes

How to use the Parakeet ASR API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions with "model": "nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3" and your API key.

curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -F model=nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 \
  -F [email protected]

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