Model comparison

whisper-large-v2 vs parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 is the smaller download — 485,425,504 bytes against 996,526,080.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-large-v2parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
Parameters1.5B627M
Architecturewhisperparakeet
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published610
Smallest quantization0.93 GiB0.39 GiB
Q4_K_M0.93 GiB0.45 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-large-v2parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072