Decision Workspace
deepgram vs whispercrabs vs qwen3-asr
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
60
deepgram
growingv0.9.2
Community Rust SDK for Deepgram's automated speech recognition APIs.
48
whispercrabs
experimentalv0.1.23
Local-first floating voice-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) tool for Linux, macOS, and Windows
47
qwen3-asr
experimentalv0.2.2
Local speech-to-text (ASR) in Rust — Qwen3-ASR inference with Metal & CUDA GPU acceleration, batch and streaming transcription
Core Metrics
| deepgram | whispercrabs | qwen3-asr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 60 | 48 | 47 |
| Total Downloads | 334.7K | 72 | 142 |
| 30d Downloads | 51.1K | 72 | 142 |
| Dependents | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Releases | 21 | 5 | 4 |
| Last Updated | 2d ago | 19d ago | 10d ago |
| Age | 3y 9m | 19d | 23d |
Health Breakdown
deepgram
Maintenance
18
Quality
11
Community
14
Popularity
7
Documentation
10
whispercrabs
Maintenance
18
Quality
10
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
12
qwen3-asr
Maintenance
12
Quality
14
Community
6
Popularity
3
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| deepgram | whispercrabs | qwen3-asr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.2 | 0.1.23 | 0.2.2 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Dependencies | 24 | 16 | 13 |
| Crate Size | 2.9MB | 242KB | 58KB |
| Features | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2024 | 2021 |
| MSRV | — | 1.85 | 1.75 |
| Owners | 3 (team) | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •deepgram leads with a health score of 60/100, but none of the options score above 80.