Alternatives to moonshine-streaming-tiny
moonshine-streaming-tiny alternatives
moonshine-streaming-tiny's smallest published quantization is 0.03 GiB. The models below do the same job with a different trade — less memory, comparable size, or a more permissive licence.
From the file· sizes from summed file bytes
Meaningfully smaller
under 70% of its smallest quantization
| Model | Params | Smallest | Quants | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whisper-tiny | 38M | 0.02 GiB | 18 | apache-2.0 |
Comparable in size
within ±40%, so a like-for-like swap
| Model | Params | Smallest | Quants | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whisper-base | 73M | 0.03 GiB | 19 | apache-2.0 |
More permissively licensed
licences that allow commercial use
| Model | Params | Smallest | Quants | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parakeet-unified-en-0.6b | 618M | 0.44 GiB | 6 | cc-by-4.0 |
| cohere-transcribe-03-2026 | 2.1B | 1.41 GiB | 11 | apache-2.0 |
| parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 627M | 0.39 GiB | 10 | cc-by-4.0 |
| whisper-medium | 764M | 0.25 GiB | 19 | apache-2.0 |
| Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | 4.4B | 2.35 GiB | 8 | apache-2.0 |
| whisper-large-v3 | 1.5B | 0.49 GiB | 18 | apache-2.0 |
| canary-180m-flash | 189M | 0.13 GiB | 6 | cc-by-4.0 |
| whisper-large-v3-turbo | 809M | 0.27 GiB | 31 | apache-2.0 |