Model comparison

parakeet-unified-en-0.6b vs canary-1b

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-unified-en-0.6b is the smaller download — 477,274,496 bytes against 729,686,848.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-unified-en-0.6bcanary-1b
Parameters618M1.0B
Architectureparakeetcanary
Layers
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published66
Smallest quantization0.44 GiB0.68 GiB
Q4_K_M0.44 GiB0.68 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0cc-by-nc-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-unified-en-0.6bcanary-1bRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072