Model comparison
whisper-tiny vs whisper-base
At Q4_K_M, whisper-tiny is the smaller download — 43,621,792 bytes against 58,870,848.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| whisper-tiny | whisper-base | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 38M | 73M |
| Architecture | whisper | whisper |
| Layers | 4 | 6 |
| Native context | — | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 18 | 19 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.02 GiB | 0.03 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.04 GiB | 0.05 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | whisper-tiny | whisper-base | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | — | — |
| 8,192 | — | — | — |
| 16,384 | — | — | — |
| 32,768 | — | — | — |
| 65,536 | — | — | — |
| 131,072 | — | — | — |