Model comparison

Breeze-ASR-25 vs whisper-large-v3

At Q4_K_M, Breeze-ASR-25 is the smaller download — 996,526,080 bytes against 997,303,008.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Breeze-ASR-25whisper-large-v3
Parameters1.5B1.5B
Architecturewhisperwhisper
Layers3232
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published618
Smallest quantization0.93 GiB0.49 GiB
Q4_K_M0.93 GiB0.93 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextBreeze-ASR-25whisper-large-v3Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072