Model comparison

parakeet-ctc-1.1b vs whisper-large-v3

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-ctc-1.1b is the smaller download — 818,156,576 bytes against 997,303,008.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-ctc-1.1bwhisper-large-v3
Parameters1.1B1.5B
Architectureparakeetwhisper
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published618
Smallest quantization0.76 GiB0.49 GiB
Q4_K_M0.76 GiB0.93 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-ctc-1.1bwhisper-large-v3Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072