Model comparison

parakeet-unified-en-0.6b vs Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-unified-en-0.6bQwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B
Parameters618M918M
Architectureparakeetqwen3asr
Layers
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published64
Smallest quantization0.44 GiB0.49 GiB
Q4_K_M0.44 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-unified-en-0.6bQwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6BRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072