Model comparison

whisper-base vs whisper-base.en

At Q4_K_M, whisper-base.en is the smaller download — 58,794,272 bytes against 58,870,848.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-basewhisper-base.en
Parameters73M73M
Architecturewhisperwhisper
Layers66
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published196
Smallest quantization0.03 GiB0.05 GiB
Q4_K_M0.05 GiB0.05 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-basewhisper-base.enRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072