Canary 1B Flash
NVIDIA's Canary 1B Flash is an open-source, multilingual audio model exceling at automatic speech-to-text recognition and translation in multiple languages, including English, German, French, and Spanish. It utilizes a FastConformer encoder and Transformer decoder architecture, allowing for efficient processing of audio inputs.
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Estimated GPU requirements for Canary 1B Flash
Estimates based on INT8 quantization at up to 32K context. A count above one assumes tensor parallelism across the cards. Actual requirements vary by framework and configuration.
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Frequently asked questions about Canary 1B Flash
Answered from the entry's own fields: context, license, modalities, evidence, serving and the memory to self-host.
NVIDIA has not published a context window for Canary 1B Flash, so the catalog shows it as not available rather than estimating one.
Yes. Canary 1B Flash is an open-weight model released under the Cc by 4.0 license, so the weights can be downloaded and self-hosted within that license's terms.
Canary 1B Flash accepts Audio and produces Text. The capabilities card on this page lists which API features each deployment honours, such as function calling and structured output, with the source each was checked against.
No published benchmark result for Canary 1B Flash is in the catalog yet, so the model is shown as unmeasured. It is not ranked or estimated; the router treats it as unknown for every task until a suite measures it.
Not on the managed pool today; Canary 1B Flash is listed for reference and comparison. Connect your own provider key or endpoint that serves it and the gateway runs it on your account, with routing decisions recorded the same way.
About 1.5 GB at INT8 for the weights and a default context, from the catalog's 1B parameter count; FP16 needs roughly twice that, and long contexts or many concurrent requests add KV cache on top. The GPU section on this page lists cards that hold it, and the capacity planner sizes it for your context length and traffic.
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Last updated: Aug 28, 2026
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