Model comparison

parakeet-ctc-0.6b vs parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-ctc-0.6b is the smaller download — 469,302,464 bytes against 485,425,504.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-ctc-0.6bparakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
Parameters609M627M
Architectureparakeetparakeet
Layers
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published1110
Smallest quantization0.44 GiB0.39 GiB
Q4_K_M0.44 GiB0.45 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-ctc-0.6bparakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072