Model comparison
parakeet-unified-en-0.6b vs Qwen3-ASR-0.6B
At Q4_K_M, parakeet-unified-en-0.6b is the smaller download — 477,274,496 bytes against 589,560,480.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| parakeet-unified-en-0.6b | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 618M | 938M |
| Architecture | parakeet | qwen3_asr |
| Layers | — | — |
| Native context | — | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 6 | 10 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.44 GiB | 0.55 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.44 GiB | 0.55 GiB |
| Licence | cc-by-4.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | parakeet-unified-en-0.6b | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | — | — |
| 8,192 | — | — | — |
| 16,384 | — | — | — |
| 32,768 | — | — | — |
| 65,536 | — | — | — |
| 131,072 | — | — | — |