Model comparison

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 vs whisper-large-v3-turbo

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 is the smaller download — 485,425,504 bytes against 536,069,728.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3whisper-large-v3-turbo
Parameters627M809M
Architectureparakeetwhisper
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published1031
Smallest quantization0.39 GiB0.27 GiB
Q4_K_M0.45 GiB0.50 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3whisper-large-v3-turboRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072