Mistral Voxtral Mini
Shares rank 18 of 25 speech recognition models by recommenders
People recommend it for accurate speech-to-text that is also cheap to run, either locally or through the API. One critic noted that the API price rose from 0.003 to 0.0035 dollars.
People recommend it for accurate speech-to-text that is also cheap to run, either locally or through the API. One critic noted that the API price rose from 0.003 to 0.0035 dollars.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong transcription quality across tests
“Out of all the STT models I've tried, it's both the best performing and one of the cheapest!”
Comment from 1 Jul 2026 in “Leanstral 1.5” “I personally switched to it as my main default fast model - it's really good.”
Comment from 8 Feb 2026 in “Voxtral Transcribe 2” Very low usage costs
“Out of all the STT models I've tried, it's both the best performing and one of the cheapest!”
Comment from 1 Jul 2026 in “Leanstral 1.5” “the costs of usage are very low”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: VoxPaste – Fast voice-to-text CLI for dictating to Claude/Cursor” Runs locally or via API
“voxtral for local overnight batch runs and voxtral via api for more expedient use cases”
Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe” “The only local model that satisfies me is Voxtral Mini 3b”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Gemini-3.5-Transcribe”
Other speech recognition models people recommend
The four most recommended other speech recognition models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Whisper | 164 | 53 | 76% | 12 | — | Approved |
| NVIDIA Parakeet | 144 | 27 | 84% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Mistral Voxtral | 69 | 27 | 72% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Moonshine open-weights STT models | 37 | 13 | 74% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Mistral Voxtral MiniThis page | 7 | 3 | 70% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the price has increased from 0.003 to 0.0035 dollars”
“Voxtral's output format was the easiest to work with when attempting to create actual subtitles.”
“voxtral for local overnight batch runs and voxtral via api for more expedient use cases”
“Voxtral being the only model — local or cloud — that handles multilingual conversation really well.”
“The only local model that satisfies me is Voxtral Mini 3b”
“Out of all the STT models I've tried, it's both the best performing and one of the cheapest!”
“I personally switched to it as my main default fast model - it's really good.”
“the costs of usage are very low”
“that's why I started seeing 500s today”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.