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Model infoModelsSnapshot: 15 Oct 2026

Pison Labs / Pison research models

Pison ASR AFR 1

Announced speech-recognition model for African language clusters and telephony audio; the research page says training.

announcedClosed weightsSpeech-to-text
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 16 Oct 2026
4 of 18 specification fields collected
Context windowNot collectedAwaiting source review
Maximum outputNot collectedAwaiting source review
Input billingNot collectedPison research announcement
Output billingNot collectedNo inferred price

Specifications

Provider-documented facts. “Not collected” means we have not verified that field yet, not that the feature is unsupported.

Context / input limit
Not collected

No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Maximum input tokens
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Maximum output
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Parameters
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Release date
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Knowledge cutoff
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Tool calling
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Structured output
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Streaming
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Batch processing
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Fine-tuning
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Reasoning
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Context caching
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Base model
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No reviewed model-specific value; unknown is not unsupported.

Language coverage
High-density African language clusters; exact list not published for this checkpoint.Source for Language coverage (opens in a new tab)
Audio formats
Telephony-channel research target; an exact accepted encoding contract is not published.Source for Audio formats (opens in a new tab)

Access & pricing

Prices belong to an endpoint and billing tier. A provider listing does not guarantee access for every account or region.

Pison research announcement

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
Not collected

No immutable serving checkpoint established.

Access
Training; not released. No native inference endpoint or price assigned.
Regions
No deployment region established for the unreleased model.

Endpoint pricing has not been collected. Check the provider for applicable rates.

Data & enterprise terms

Retention, training use, regional processing and enterprise terms have not been summarized for this endpoint.

Caching

Caching can reuse earlier input processing. Availability, lifetime and billing depend on the endpoint. A cache hit still generates a new response.

01 / INITIAL INPUTProcess & retain

The system processes eligible input and retains reusable state.

02 / LATER REQUESTCheck available state

Reuse depends on matching input, session state and the cache policy.

03 / CACHE HITReuse & generate

Reusing state can reduce repeated work. Any charges follow the billing rules below.

Pison research announcement

Not verified

No model-specific inference-cache contract. Streaming buffers, file storage and cold-start loading are not prompt caching.

How it works
Not collected

No model-specific inference-cache contract. Streaming buffers, file storage and cold-start loading are not prompt caching.

Minimum reusable input
Not collected

No model-specific inference-cache contract. Streaming buffers, file storage and cold-start loading are not prompt caching.

Lifetime & refresh
Not collected

No model-specific inference-cache contract. Streaming buffers, file storage and cold-start loading are not prompt caching.

How to enable it
Not collected

No model-specific inference-cache contract. Streaming buffers, file storage and cold-start loading are not prompt caching.

Usage fields
Not collected

No model-specific inference-cache contract. Streaming buffers, file storage and cold-start loading are not prompt caching.

Billing rules
Not collected

No model-specific inference-cache contract. Streaming buffers, file storage and cold-start loading are not prompt caching.

Limits & data boundaries
Not collected

No model-specific inference-cache contract. Streaming buffers, file storage and cold-start loading are not prompt caching.

No verified cache rate for this endpoint. An empty rate is not a zero charge.

Caching reviewed 16 Oct 2026

What the measurements say

No benchmark observations have been added for this model. We do not turn a vendor description into a performance score.

Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.

The record behind the model

Why it is included

Provider names an unreleased model in its research roadmap; terms reserve neural weights to Pison and licensors and prohibit extraction. Exact eventual artifact license and base-model ancestry remain unresolved; no public deployment is claimed.

Classification evidence (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed