Speech to textRUGGUF2025–2026
Microsoft · USA
Microsoft speech models: long multi-voice dialogue synthesis, fast synthesis for live conversation, and recognition of long recordings split by speaker, including in Russian.
- Transcribing long meetings with speaker labels
- Voicing podcasts and dialogues
- Real-time voice for assistants
- Sizes
- 0.5B – 9B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRU2024–2026
Sber · Russia
Sber open models with strong Russian language support and local context, from 10B-A1.8B to 702B, all MIT. GigaChat3.1-Audio handles recordings up to two hours; GFusion is a fast diffusion text version.
- Russian-language employee assistant on your own server
- Customer replies and request handling in Russian
- Working with contracts and internal policies
- Sizes
- 10B-A1.8B – 702B-A36B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRU2022–2026
Yandex · Russia
Yandex models trained from scratch with a focus on the Russian language and Russian context. The new AliceAI-Foundation 80B-A3B (Apache 2.0) is a base model only, with no instruct version: you fine-tune it for your own tasks. The efficient AliceAI-T5 35B-A0.6B is also available.
- Russian-language assistant and chatbot
- Answers based on the company knowledge base
- Base for industry-specific fine-tuning
- Sizes
- 8B – 100B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2024–2026
Cohere Labs · Canada
Multilingual models from Cohere's research arm, covering 23 to 100+ languages. Tiny Aya (2026, 3.3B) runs on a regular PC, but for non-commercial use only.
- Translation and correspondence in less common languages
- Multilingual chat assistant
- Analysis of images with text (Vision)
- Sizes
- 3.3B – 35B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRU2026
SberDevices (ai-forever) · Russia
A Russian and English research prototype: the model writes text in blocks at once (diffusion) rather than word by word, which speeds up responses. The authors do not recommend it for production systems.
- Experiments with faster generation
- Fine-tuning small models for your own tasks
- Research
- Sizes
- 0.6B – 4B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2023–2026
Alibaba · China
A family of language models with strong Russian language support, from small versions for a laptop to a flagship on par with commercial APIs.
- Chatbot and knowledge-base assistant
- Replies to emails and customer requests
- Document parsing and classification
- Sizes
- 0,6B – 2,4T-A95B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRU2024–2026
Sber (SberDevices) · Russia
Sber embeddings built for Russian: according to the developers, among the best on Russian-language search benchmarks. FRIDA is compact, Giga-Embeddings is more powerful.
- Search across Russian-language documents
- RAG for chatbots in Russian
- Classifying requests and reviews
- Sizes
- 480M – 10B-A1.8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2024–2026
Cohere · Canada
Business models: document search with source citations, tool calling, many languages. Command A+ (2026) was the first under Apache 2.0, followed by the North line: code, translation and compact vision.
- Knowledge-base answers with source citations
- Agents that work with internal systems
- Translation and correspondence in different languages
- Sizes
- 2.5B – 218B-A25B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2025–2026
Liquid AI · USA
Models with a new architecture for on-device use: fast on a regular CPU and on phones. Versions for data extraction, RAG and tools, plus LFM2.5-VL for images and voice LFM2.5-Audio.
- Offline assistant on a laptop or phone
- Data extraction from documents
- Tool calling in apps
- Sizes
- 230M – 24B-A2B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2023–2026
Mistral AI · France
European models focused on speed. Mixtral was one of the first open mixture-of-experts models; there are versions for images (Pixtral, Medium 3.5), Lean proofs and moderation (Shieldstral).
- Fast chat responses
- Data extraction from text
- Translation and multilingual work
- Sizes
- 3B – 675B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Image generationRU2022–2026
Sber (Kandinsky Lab) · Russia
Sber's Russian family of image and video generation models. Understands Russian-language prompts and Russian cultural context well; released under MIT.
- Images from Russian-language descriptions
- Short promo videos from text or a photo
- Instruction-based image editing
- Sizes
- 2B – 19B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Search and RAGRU2025–2026
NVIDIA · USA
NVIDIA embeddings for search and RAG. Nemotron-3-Embed, released in 2026, is under the permissive OpenMDW license and works in many languages.
- Search across corporate documents
- RAG for chatbots and assistants
- Search across images and pages (VL versions)
- Sizes
- 1B – 8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Speech to textRUGGUF2024–2026
Sber · Russia
Sber's models for Russian speech recognition, among the most accurate for Russian. Includes emotion recognition, v3 with punctuation, and a multilingual version (Russian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek).
- Transcribing calls in Russian
- Meeting minutes
- Voice control of services
- Sizes
- 220M – 600M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRU2024–2026
T-Bank · Russia
T-Bank models fine-tuned from Qwen for Russian: they write and reason in Russian noticeably better than the original. T-Lite is 8B, T-Pro 32B on one GPU; T-Search is a multi-step search agent in Russian and English.
- Russian-language support chatbot
- Analysis of requests and documents in Russian
- Answers based on the company knowledge base
- Sizes
- 7B – 36B-A3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Documents and OCRRUGGUF2025–2026
Tencent · China
A lightweight OCR model from Tencent: document parsing, finding text in photos, field extraction and translating text from images. Version 1.5 is faster and runs on an ordinary PC.
- Extracting fields from invoices and delivery notes
- Recognising tables and formulas
- Translating text in photos and scans
- Sizes
- 1B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Documents and OCRRU2024–2026
Datalab · USA
A compact OCR toolkit from the makers of Marker and Chandra: text recognition, page layout, reading order and tables. Surya OCR 2 (650M) also runs on a CPU; Russian scored 88.8% in benchmarks.
- Recognizing scans and PDFs, including in Russian
- Page layout: headings, tables, images, reading order
- Recognizing tables by rows and columns
- Sizes
- up to 650M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Speech to textRUGGUF2026
Alibaba (Qwen) · China
Speech recognition models from the Qwen team for 50+ languages, including Russian. They handle noise, singing and accents well.
- Transcribing calls and meetings
- Video subtitles
- Multilingual recognition
- Sizes
- 0.6B – 1.7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRUGGUF2025–2026
Boson AI · USA
Expressive speech and dialogue synthesis with voice cloning, plus recognition models. Version 3 of the synthesis supports about 100 languages, including Russian, but is non-commercial.
- Expressive video voiceover
- Voicing dialogues
- Voice cloning
- Sizes
- about 3B – 8B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Text to speechRUGGUF2025–2026
Zyphra · USA
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and fine control over emotion, speed and pitch.
- Voice cloning
- Emotional voiceover
- Voicing videos
- Sizes
- about 1.6B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Music and soundRUGGUF2025–2026
ACE Studio and StepFun · China
Fast generation of songs with vocals in 19 languages, including Russian: a full song in seconds, editing of individual parts and style changes.
- Songs and jingles for ads
- Background music for videos
- Demo versions of tracks
- Sizes
- about 2B – 4B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUGGUF2025–2026
MiniMax · China
Large MoE models with very long context (up to 1M tokens for Text-01 and M3). M3 is multimodal and understands images. Licenses differ greatly from version to version.
- Analysis of large document archives in a single request
- Agents with tools
- Help for developers
- Sizes
- 230B-A10B – 456B-A46B
- Hardware
- from: Cluster
Documents and OCRRU2022–2026
Baidu (PaddlePaddle) · China
Classic lightweight PaddleOCR models: detecting and recognizing lines of text plus page layout. They run on CPUs and phones; there is a separate model for East Slavic languages, including Russian.
- Recognizing text on scans, photos and screens
- Reading labels, displays and markings in production and warehouses
- Page layout: tables, formulas, stamps, headings
- Sizes
- from 1.5M to tens of millions of parameters
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUGGUF2023–2026
Jina AI · Germany
Strong multilingual embeddings with long context; v5-omni understands text, images and audio. Recent versions are open for non-commercial use only.
- Search across documents in many languages
- Search across images and scans
- Classification and clustering
- Sizes
- 33M – 3.8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2023–2026
Cognitive Computations (Eric Hartford) · USA
Uncensored fine-tunes of Llama, Mistral, Qwen and others that fulfill almost any request. Filtering and moderation are fully on the deployer; do not show it to customers without your own filter.
- Assistant that does not refuse legal but sensitive topics
- Internal tools under a strict system prompt
- Role-play and creative scenarios
- Sizes
- 0.5B – 405B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Speech to textRU2023–2026
NVIDIA · USA
Fast NVIDIA speech recognition models, including streaming ones for real-time use. Parakeet TDT v3 and Nemotron 3.5 ASR understand Russian.
- Transcribing calls and meetings
- Video subtitles
- Real-time voice input
- Sizes
- 110M – 2.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRUGGUF2025–2026
Resemble AI · USA
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and adjustable expressiveness. The multilingual version supports 23 languages, including Russian; Turbo and Flash are sped up for live dialogue.
- Voice for a bot or assistant
- Cloning a brand voice
- Voicing videos
- Sizes
- about 350M – 500M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRU2025–2026
OpenMOSS (Fudan University) · China
A speech synthesis family: multi-voice dialogue voicing (TTSD), fast synthesis for live conversation and the tiny Nano. Version 1.5 supports 30+ languages, including Russian.
- Voicing podcasts and dialogues
- Voice for an assistant
- Voice cloning
- Sizes
- 100M – 8.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRU2025–2026
Tencent · China
Tencent translators for 33 languages; the first version won the WMT25 competition. Russian is supported. The small 1.8B version runs on a laptop; the new Hy-MT2 is under Apache 2.0.
- Translating documents while keeping formatting
- Translation with a set glossary of terms
- Translating correspondence with Chinese partners
- Sizes
- 1.8B – 30B-A3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Documents and OCRRUGGUF2025–2026
Baidu (PaddlePaddle) · China
A compact document parsing model from the popular PaddleOCR toolkit. Per the model card it supports 109 languages, including Russian; version 1.6 leads the OmniDocBench benchmark.
- Recognising invoices, contracts and delivery notes, including in Russian
- Recognising tables, formulas and stamps
- Converting scans to Markdown and JSON
- Sizes
- 0.9B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRU2025–2026
Supertone · South Korea
Very fast, lightweight speech synthesis that runs directly on the device, without a GPU or the cloud. Supertonic 3 speaks 31 languages, including Russian.
- Voicing voice bot replies on an ordinary server
- Voiceover in offline and mobile apps
- Reading texts and notifications aloud
- Sizes
- about 99M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2024–2026
IBM · USA
Lightweight IBM embeddings for enterprise search, trained on data with clear rights. R2, released in 2026, became multilingual.
- Search across corporate documents
- RAG on a regular server without a GPU
- Reranking results
- Sizes
- 30M – 311M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRUGGUF2025–2026
OpenBMB (ModelBest, Tsinghua University) · China
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and natural intonation. VoxCPM2 supports 30 languages, including Russian.
- Voice cloning
- Voicing videos and audiobooks
- Voice for an assistant
- Sizes
- 0.5B – 2.3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUGGUF2025–2026
Arcee AI · USA
An American family of MoE models trained from scratch: Nano, Mini and Large. Trinity-Large-Thinking (398B) reasons before answering.
- Agents with tool calling
- Reasoning tasks
- Corporate assistant on your own servers
- Sizes
- 6B – 398B-A13B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRU2020–2026
Helsinki-NLP, University of Helsinki · Finland
More than a thousand small translators, each for its own language pair. Russian-English and back are available. Fast even on a regular CPU.
- Bulk translation of short texts
- Translation right on the server without a GPU
- Translating reviews and requests before analysis
- Sizes
- 25M – 240M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Fact-checking and judgesRU2025–2026
SberDevices (ai-forever) · Russia
Judge models that evaluate other AI models' answers in Russian: they score against a given criterion and explain the score in text.
- Automatic quality checks of Russian chatbot answers
- Comparing several models before choosing one
- Checking answers after fine-tuning
- Sizes
- 4B – 32B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRU2024–2026
Ivan Bondarenko (bond005), Novosibirsk State University · Russia
Russian-language models for working with documents rather than chatting: knowledge-base answers, extraction of entities and facts from Russian text, long context.
- Answers to questions based on internal documents
- Extracting names, dates and amounts from contracts
- Short summaries of long Russian texts
- Sizes
- 1.5B – 7.6B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Speech to textRUGGUF2025–2026
Mistral AI · France
Mistral's speech models: they understand audio, transcribe and answer questions about a recording. The Realtime version recognizes speech live and supports Russian; speech synthesis is also available.
- Transcribing and summarizing recordings
- Asking questions about audio
- Real-time recognition
- Sizes
- 3B – 24B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRU2024–2026
Fish Audio · USA / China
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and emotion control in 80+ languages, including Russian. Quality is close to paid services, but the weights are for research only.
- Voice cloning
- Emotional voiceover
- Multilingual voiceover
- Sizes
- 0.5B – about 4.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Documents and OCRRUGGUF2025–2026
rednote hilab (Xiaohongshu) · China
A multilingual document parsing model: text, tables, formulas and reading order in one pass. dots.mocr also turns charts and diagrams into vector SVG.
- Recognising invoices, contracts and delivery notes
- Converting tables into an editable format
- Converting charts and diagrams into vector format
- Sizes
- about 3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Documents and OCRRUGGUF2025–2026
Datalab · USA
A strong OCR model from the authors of Marker and Surya: handwriting, forms, tables. Per the model card it supports 90+ languages, with Russian among the examples.
- Recognising invoices, contracts and delivery notes, including in Russian
- Recognising handwritten forms and questionnaires
- Recognising complex tables
- Sizes
- 5B – 9B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Documents and OCRRUGGUF2026
Baidu (Qianfan) · China
A Baidu model that not only recognises a document but also answers questions about it. Per the model card it supports 192 languages, including Cyrillic.
- Recognising invoices, contracts and delivery notes, including in Russian
- Page layout analysis and table recognition
- Answering questions about a document
- Sizes
- 4B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Voice: speakers and soundRU2026
FireRedTeam (Xiaohongshu) · China
A speech and sound event detector: tells apart speech, singing and music. In a 102-language test (the FLEURS set, which includes Russian) it beat Silero VAD and TEN VAD. Has a streaming mode.
- Cutting recordings before speech recognition
- Separating speech from music and singing in broadcasts and videos
- Speech detection in voice bots
- Sizes
- compact, exact size not stated
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRU2026
k2-fsa (Next-gen Kaldi) · China
Speech synthesis with voice cloning from a short sample in 646 languages, including Russian and languages of Russia's peoples. A voice can be described in words. Weights are for non-commercial use only.
- Voiceover in rare languages
- Voice cloning from a sample
- Research and prototypes of multilingual voiceover
- Sizes
- 0.6B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRU2026
Microsoft · USA
Microsoft's 2026 multilingual embeddings with context up to 32K tokens; Russian is on the language list. The 270M and 0.6B versions run on a regular server, 27B is the most accurate.
- Multilingual knowledge base search
- Picking passages for RAG
- Search across long documents
- Sizes
- 270M – 27B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2025–2026
Alibaba (Qwen) · China
Embeddings and rerankers based on Qwen3, among the best open ones for multilingual search, including Russian. VL versions search images, screenshots and video.
- Knowledge base search for RAG
- Reranking results before answering
- Search across scans, slides and screenshots
- Sizes
- 0.6B – 8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRUGGUF2026
Alibaba (Qwen) · China
Speech synthesis in 10 languages, including Russian: voice cloning from 3 seconds, ready-made voices and creating a voice from a text description.
- Voice for a bot or assistant
- Cloning a brand voice
- Choosing a voice by description
- Sizes
- 0.6B – 1.7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2023–2026
Technology Innovation Institute (TII) · UAE
A family from Abu Dhabi: from the early Falcon 40B and 180B to hybrid Falcon-H1 and tiny Falcon-H1-Tiny models of 90–600M parameters for devices.
- Assistant and answers based on documents
- Running on low-end hardware and devices
- Tool calling in simple agents
- Sizes
- 90M – 180B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2023–2026
Microsoft · USA
Small Microsoft models trained on carefully selected data: strong at logic and math for their modest size. Versions with images and speech are available.
- Assistant on a laptop or your own server
- Reasoning and calculation tasks
- Analysis of images and diagrams (vision versions)
- Sizes
- 1.3B – 42B-A6.6B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUGGUF2024–2026
UTTER consortium (Unbabel, universities of Lisbon, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and others) · European Union
European language models trained on all EU languages and several others, with a focus on translation. Russian is supported. Permissive license.
- Translation and localization of texts
- Answering questions in different languages
- Draft emails for foreign partners
- Sizes
- 1.7B – 22B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRUOllama2026
Google · USA
Translators based on Gemma 3 for 55 languages that can also translate text in images. Russian is supported. The 4B version fits on a laptop.
- Translating documents and correspondence
- Translating text from screenshots and photos
- Localizing websites and apps
- Sizes
- 4B – 27B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Documents and OCRRUOllama2026
Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · China
A lightweight OCR model from Zhipu for document parsing. The model card lists Russian among supported languages; built for high load and low-end hardware.
- Recognising invoices, contracts and delivery notes, including in Russian
- Recognising tables and formulas
- Extracting fields to JSON
- Sizes
- 0.9B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Voice: speakers and soundRU2025–2026
Daily (Pipecat) · USA
Uses intonation to tell whether a person has finished a thought or just paused, so a voice bot does not interrupt. Version 3 is 8 MB, runs on a CPU and understands 23 languages, including Russian.
- Voice bot does not interrupt the customer during pauses
- Fast reply when the customer has really finished
- An add-on to a standard speech detector in voice assistants
- Sizes
- 8M (v3) – 580M (v1)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
CodeRUOllama2025
Mistral AI (with All Hands AI) · France
Mistral models for agentic development: they read the repository, edit files and run commands on their own. The 24B version fits on a single GPU.
- A developer agent that fixes tickets from the tracker
- Extending internal systems from a description
- Automating routine code edits
- Sizes
- 24B – 123B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Speech to textRU2025
Meta · USA
Speech recognition for 1,600+ languages, including Russian and rare languages no system supported before. A new language can be added from a few examples.
- Transcription in rare and local languages
- Digitizing oral archives
- Subtitles in many languages
- Sizes
- 300M – 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRU2024–2025
Alibaba (Tongyi, FunAudioLLM) · China
Speech synthesis with voice cloning from a short sample and streaming output for live dialogue. Version 3 supports 9 languages, including Russian.
- Voice for a bot or assistant
- Cloning a brand voice
- Voicing videos
- Sizes
- 300M – 0.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUGGUF2024–2025
Vikhr Models · Russia
Russian-language fine-tunes of open models (Mistral, Qwen, Llama) by the independent Vikhr team, with compact versions for a regular PC. Borealis is an audio model for recognizing and understanding Russian speech.
- Russian-language assistant on your own PC or server
- Knowledge-base answers (RAG)
- Texts and emails in Russian
- Sizes
- 0.5B – 24B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRU2022–2025
Silero · Russia
Lightweight Russian speech synthesis that runs on a regular CPU. Version v5 added CIS languages and languages of Russia's peoples: Tatar, Bashkir, Yakut, Kazakh and others.
- Voicing voice bot replies
- Reading texts in Russian
- Voices in the languages of Russia's peoples
- Sizes
- tens of megabytes
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Voice: speakers and soundRU2020–2025
Silero · Russia
The most popular open speech detector: tells voice apart from silence and noise. Processes an audio chunk in under a millisecond on a single CPU core; trained on recordings in more than 6,000 languages.
- Cutting calls and recordings before speech recognition
- Detecting when the customer is speaking in a voice bot
- Filtering out silence and noise to save on transcription
- Sizes
- about 2 MB
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Documents and OCRRUGGUF2025
Nanonets · USA / India
A model that converts documents to Markdown with tables, stamps, signatures, checkboxes and watermarks. The OCR2 model card lists Russian among its languages.
- Recognising invoices, contracts and delivery notes, including in Russian
- Recognising stamps, signatures and marks
- Handwriting recognition
- Sizes
- 1.5B – 3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2024–2025
Mixedbread · Germany
Embeddings and rerankers from Germany's Mixedbread. mxbai-embed-large is one of the most downloaded English search models; the v2 rerankers cover 100+ languages, including Russian.
- Search across a knowledge base
- Reranking results before a bot answers
- Product catalog search
- Sizes
- 17M – 1.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRU2025
Avito Tech · Russia
Avito's model based on Qwen3-8B, retrained for Russian: its own tokenizer makes Russian text 15–25% faster. Supports function calling.
- Product and listing descriptions in Russian
- Chatbot that calls internal services
- Request analysis and classification
- Sizes
- 7.9B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Image + textRU2025
Avito Tech · Russia
Avito's Russian-language model that understands images: describes photos, answers questions about an image, reads text on it. Based on Qwen2.5-VL, faster in Russian than the original.
- Product descriptions from photos in Russian
- Checking that a photo matches its description
- Reading brands and text in images
- Sizes
- 7.4B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Speech to textRU2023–2025
Alpha Cephei · Russia
Offline Russian speech recognition that runs even on a Raspberry Pi or a phone, without internet. Streaming models for live audio and simple Russian speech synthesis, Vosk TTS, are available.
- Transcribing Russian calls and recordings without the cloud
- Voice control in apps and kiosks
- Low-latency streaming speech recognition
- Sizes
- about 45 MB – 1.8 GB
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Voice assistantsRUGGUF2025
Alibaba (Qwen) · China
Models that understand text, images, audio and video and reply by voice in real time. Qwen3-Omni speaks 10 languages, including Russian.
- Voice assistant for customers
- Analyzing calls and videos
- Voice answers about documents and images
- Sizes
- 3B – 30B-A3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Moderation and safetyRUGGUF2025
Alibaba (Qwen) · China
Safety filters for 119 languages, Russian among them. The Stream version checks a bot's reply while it is being generated and can cut it off on the fly.
- Filtering bot requests in Russian
- Stopping a dangerous reply during generation
- Labeling messages by risk category
- Sizes
- 0.6B – 8B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRU2024–2025
Lomonosov Moscow State University Research Computing Center, LAIR lab (RefalMachine) · Russia
Qwen models adapted for Russian: a new tokenizer plus further training on Russian texts. As a result, Russian text is generated up to twice as fast as with the original model of the same size.
- Russian-language assistant on your own server
- Answers based on company documents (RAG) in Russian
- Analysis and summaries of long Russian texts
- Sizes
- 1.5B – 32B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRU2025
ESpeech (independent group of Russian-speaking developers) · Russia
Russian speech synthesis with voice cloning based on the F5-TTS architecture, trained on Russian speech datasets collected by the authors. Stress is placed automatically. Several variants, including a "podcaster" one.
- Voicing videos and audiobooks in Russian
- Cloning a narrator's voice from a sample
- Voice for a bot or assistant in Russian
- Sizes
- about 340M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Speech to textRU2025
T-Bank · Russia
A compact T-Bank streaming model for recognizing Russian speech in phone calls. Works in real time even without a GPU.
- Transcribing phone calls
- Voice robots on the line
- Call quality control
- Sizes
- 72M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUOllama2024–2025
Hugging Face · USA
Tiny open Hugging Face models for phones and laptops. SmolLM3 (3B) can reason and handle long context; the full training recipe is open.
- Simple on-device assistant
- Classification and routing of requests
- Base for fine-tuning on a narrow task
- Sizes
- 135M – 3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRUGGUF2025
ByteDance Seed · China
A compact ByteDance translator for 28 languages, close in quality to large closed systems. Russian is supported. Ready-made compressed versions are available.
- Translating business correspondence and documents
- Translating product cards
- Translating technical and legal texts
- Sizes
- 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Voice: speakers and soundRU2023–2025
Community (xbgoose and others), Dusha dataset from SberDevices · Russia
Models that detect emotion from voice in Russian speech: neutral, anger, positive, sadness. Trained on the open Dusha dataset from SberDevices.
- Finding calls with irritated customers
- Assessing the tone of operator conversations
- Prioritizing complaints in a call center
- Sizes
- 21M – 316M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRUGGUF2024–2025
Unbabel · Portugal
Language models tailored for translation and multilingual text work: translating, editing, and assessing translation quality. Russian is supported. Non-commercial license.
- Translation that respects context and terminology
- Post-editing machine translation
- Assessing the quality of a finished translation
- Sizes
- 2B – 72B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisRU2023–2025
deepvk (VK) · Russia
Russian encoders from the VK team: RuModernBERT reads long texts, USER produces vectors for search, GeRaCl classifies texts by topic without training.
- Classifying requests without labeled data
- Knowledge base search in Russian
- Analyzing long contracts
- Sizes
- 35M – 360M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
CodeRU2025
MTS AI (MWS AI) · Russia
A small coding assistant from MTS AI that understands requests in Russian. Runs locally, with plugins for VS Code and JetBrains.
- Code suggestions and completion in the editor
- Code explanations in Russian
- Drafts of tests and documentation
- Sizes
- 1.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Fact-checking and judgesRU2024–2025
NVIDIA · USA
Large NVIDIA scorers for selecting and fine-tuning answers. The multilingual GenRM version lists Russian among its languages. The scorer itself makes mistakes and does not replace manual review on important tasks.
- Choosing the best of several candidate answers
- Preparing data to fine-tune your own model
- Scoring assistant answers in Russian and other languages
- Sizes
- 49B, 70B and 340B
- Hardware
- from: Cluster
TextRUGGUF2023–2025
Ilya Gusev (IlyaGusev) · Russia
The best-known Russian community fine-tune: open models (Llama, Mistral, Gemma, YandexGPT) trained to act as a Russian-speaking assistant. A convenient starting point for a Russian chatbot on your own server.
- Russian-language chat assistant
- Answers based on the company knowledge base
- Drafts of emails, descriptions and posts in Russian
- Sizes
- 7B – 70B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Speech to textRUGGUF2022–2025
OpenAI · USA
Speech recognition in 99 languages, including Russian. The de facto standard for transcribing calls and meetings. Hugging Face's faster Distil-Whisper is English only.
- Transcription of calls and video meetings
- Video subtitles
- Voice messages to text
- Sizes
- 39M – 1,5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2024–2025
Nomic AI · USA
Fully open embeddings, with weights, data and training code. v2 is multilingual on MoE; there are versions for code and for searching PDF pages.
- Search across documents and a knowledge base
- Code search
- Search across scans and PDFs without text recognition
- Sizes
- 137M – 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRUGGUF2023–2025
Rhasspy / Open Home Foundation · USA
Very fast speech synthesis that runs even on a Raspberry Pi. Ready-made voices in 35+ languages, including several Russian ones.
- Voicing notifications and bot replies
- Voice for offline devices
- Voice menus
- Sizes
- about 5M – 30M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRU2023–2025
Alibaba · China
Alibaba embeddings and rerankers for search: from tiny to 7B based on Qwen2. There is a multilingual mGTE version with long context.
- Semantic search across documents
- Reranking search results
- Clustering and classifying texts
- Sizes
- 33M – 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2019–2025
UKP Lab (TU Darmstadt), later Hugging Face · Germany
The classic for meaning-based search: small, fast models that run even on a modest server without a GPU. The multilingual versions understand Russian.
- Search across a knowledge base and FAQ
- Finding similar tickets and duplicates
- Grouping reviews and requests by topic
- Sizes
- about 20M – 470M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisRUOllama2024–2025
Jina AI · Germany
Small models that turn raw web page HTML into clean Markdown or JSON. Handy for preparing websites for a knowledge base. Non-commercial license only.
- Cleaning website pages for a knowledge base
- Extracting data from pages into JSON
- Preparing texts for RAG
- Sizes
- 0.5B – 1.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllama2024
Snowflake · USA
Snowflake embeddings built specifically for search. Version 2.0 is multilingual (Russian is on the language list), handles long texts up to 8K tokens and can compress vectors.
- Search across documents and knowledge bases
- Picking passages for RAG
- Search across reports and internal data
- Sizes
- 22M – 568M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRU2024
MTS AI (MWS AI) · Russia
A lightweight Russian-language model from MTS AI for Russian texts: answers, summaries, drafts. A ready version for CPU without a GPU is available. The larger Cotype Pro is not released openly.
- Drafts of emails and descriptions in Russian
- Short document summaries
- Answers to common customer questions
- Sizes
- 1.5B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRU2024
deepvk (VK) · Russia
Compact Kazakh-Russian translators from VK. At 197M they translate as well as the 600M NLLB and run on a regular CPU.
- Translating requests from Kazakh to Russian
- Translating documents and instructions into Kazakh
- Bilingual customer support
- Sizes
- 197M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRUNot maintained2023–2024
Johns Hopkins University and Microsoft · USA
Research translators based on Llama 2. The first ALMA covered 5 pairs with English, including Russian; X-ALMA expanded coverage to 50 languages.
- Translation between English and Russian
- Experiments with LLM-based translation
- Base for fine-tuning a translator
- Sizes
- 7B – 13B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Text analysisRUNot maintained2020–2024
SberDevices (ai-forever) · Russia
Sber's Russian-language encoders trained on large Russian corpora. A base for classifiers, NER and semantic search in Russian.
- Classifying requests in Russian
- Extracting names, amounts and dates after fine-tuning
- Detecting review sentiment
- Sizes
- about 30M to 430M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUNot maintained2023–2024
Sber (ai-forever) · Russia
Sber's Russian text-to-text model, successor to ruT5 (2021). Small and fast: fine-tuned for summarizing, paraphrasing and fixing errors in Russian text; ready-made SAGE spell-checking versions exist.
- Fixing spelling mistakes and typos in Russian text
- Short summaries and paraphrasing
- Normalizing requests and inquiries before processing
- Sizes
- 95M – 1.7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUNot maintained2022–2024
Microsoft · USA
Proven models for semantic search. The multilingual versions work well with Russian and are still a reliable base for RAG.
- Search across a knowledge base and documents
- Finding answers for a chatbot (RAG)
- Finding similar requests and duplicates
- Sizes
- 33M – 7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Search and RAGRUOllamaNot maintained2024
BAAI · China
A model for meaning-based search in about a hundred languages. The core of RAG: the bot finds the right part of a document before answering.
- Search across a document base
- RAG for a chatbot
- Finding similar requests and duplicates
- Sizes
- 568M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Voice assistantsRUNot maintained2023
Meta · USA
Speech and text translation across roughly a hundred languages, including Russian: speech to text, speech to speech, and streaming translation that keeps intonation.
- Speech-to-speech translation
- Translating and transcribing recordings
- Streaming translation
- Sizes
- 281M – 2.3B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRUGGUFNot maintained2023
Google · USA
Google's translator for more than 400 languages under a permissive license. Russian is supported. A good substitute for NLLB when commercial use is needed.
- Translating documents and emails
- Translating catalogs and product descriptions
- Translating into CIS and Asian languages
- Sizes
- 3B – 10B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text to speechRUNot maintained2023
Coqui · Germany
A popular model for cloning a voice from a short sample in 17 languages, including Russian. Coqui has shut down and development has stopped.
- Voice cloning from a sample
- Multilingual voiceover
- Research and prototypes
- Sizes
- about 470M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUGGUFNot maintained2022–2023
Sber (ai-forever) · Russia
Sber's multilingual model covering 61 languages, including languages of the peoples of Russia and the CIS. Separate fine-tunes exist for Buryat, Yakut, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh and others, rare for open models.
- Texts in languages of the peoples of Russia and the CIS
- Base for fine-tuning on a less common language
- Drafts and templates in several languages
- Sizes
- 1.3B – 13B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TextRUGGUFNot maintained2023
Sber (ai-forever) · Russia
Sber's 13-billion-parameter base Russian model; GigaChat grew out of its fine-tuned version. Continues texts in Russian and English, context only 2048 tokens; today useful as a base for narrow fine-tuning.
- Base for fine-tuning on a narrow Russian-language task
- Generating template Russian texts
- Experiments with Russian-language models without license restrictions
- Sizes
- 13B
- Hardware
- from: 1 GPU
Text to speechRUGGUFNot maintained2023
Suno · USA
One of the first open models to voice text with intonation, laughter and pauses. Supports about ten languages, including Russian. Now outdated.
- Draft voiceovers for videos
- Voice service prototypes
- Sound effects in speech
- Sizes
- about 300M – 1B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisRUNot maintained2022–2023
David Dale (cointegrated) and the community · Russia
Ready-made tiny rubert-tiny models for Russian text: detect rudeness and insults, sentiment and emotions. They run on a CPU in milliseconds.
- Filtering insults in Russian chats and comments
- Labeling reviews as positive, neutral or negative
- Spotting irritated customers in requests
- Sizes
- 12M – 29M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRUGGUFNot maintained2022–2023
Meta · USA
A translator for 200 languages, including rare and minor ones. Russian is supported. Strong language coverage, but the license prohibits commercial use.
- Translating texts between 200 languages
- Translating into rare languages where no other models exist
- Comparing quality when choosing a translator
- Sizes
- 600M to 3.3B (plus 54B MoE)
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
RerankersRUNot maintained2022
UKP Lab and the Sentence Transformers community · Germany
The most downloaded open rerankers: a tiny model reads a question-passage pair and scores how well they match. The multilingual mMARCO version covers Russian.
- Reordering knowledge base search results
- Selecting passages before a chatbot answers
- Finding duplicates among tickets and product cards
- Sizes
- about 4M – 120M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisRUNot maintained2019–2022
Meta · USA
A classic multilingual encoder for 100 languages, including Russian. The base of many sentiment, NER and embedding models, including BGE-M3.
- Detecting review sentiment in different languages
- Extracting names and organizations after fine-tuning
- Classifying requests
- Sizes
- 270M – 10.7B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Computer visionRUNot maintained2022
Sber AI and SberDevices (ai-forever) · Russia
A Russian version of CLIP: matches images with Russian captions. Lets you search photos by description and sort images into categories without training.
- Product search by photo and by Russian description
- Sorting images into categories without labeling
- Checking that a photo matches its caption
- Sizes
- 150M – 430M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisRUNot maintained2021
Microsoft · USA
A time-tested encoder behind many classifiers and NER models (including GLiNER). The multilingual mDeBERTa-v3 understands Russian.
- Classifying review sentiment
- Entity extraction after fine-tuning
- Checking whether a conclusion follows from a text
- Sizes
- 70M – 435M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
Text analysisRUNot maintained2021
David Dale (cointegrated) · Russia
A very small Russian-English BERT that runs fast on a regular CPU. Ready-made fine-tuned versions exist for sentiment, toxicity and emotions.
- Detecting review sentiment
- Filtering rude chat messages
- Fast classification of requests
- Sizes
- 12M – 29M
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
TranslationRUGGUFNot maintained2020–2021
Meta · USA
An early Meta translator that translates directly between 100 languages, without English in the middle. Russian is supported. Old, but light and permissively licensed.
- Translation between any pair of 100 languages
- Quick draft translation on modest hardware
- Base for fine-tuning to your subject area
- Sizes
- 418M – 12B
- Hardware
- from: Laptop
