Model comparison

parakeet-unified-en-0.6b vs granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-unified-en-0.6b is the smaller download — 477,274,496 bytes against 1,023,646,816.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-unified-en-0.6bgranite-speech-4.1-2b-plus
Parameters618M2.1B
Architectureparakeetgranite_speech
Layers40
Native context4,096
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published613
Smallest quantization0.44 GiB0.95 GiB
Q4_K_M0.44 GiB0.95 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-unified-en-0.6bgranite-speech-4.1-2b-plusRatio
4,0960.31 GiB
8,1920.63 GiB
16,3841.25 GiB
32,7682.50 GiB
65,5365.00 GiB
131,07210.00 GiB