Alternatives to parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 alternatives

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3's smallest published quantization is 0.39 GiB. The models below do the same job with a different trade — less memory, comparable size, or a more permissive licence.

From the file· sizes from summed file bytes

Meaningfully smaller

under 70% of its smallest quantization
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
whisper-medium764M0.25 GiB19apache-2.0
canary-180m-flash189M0.13 GiB6cc-by-4.0
whisper-large-v3-turbo809M0.27 GiB31apache-2.0
GigaAM-v3223M0.17 GiB18mit
whisper-small242M0.08 GiB19apache-2.0
SenseVoiceSmall234M0.13 GiB9other
whisper-base73M0.03 GiB19apache-2.0
whisper-small.en242M0.16 GiB6apache-2.0

Comparable in size

within ±40%, so a like-for-like swap
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b638M0.38 GiB8other
parakeet-unified-en-0.6b618M0.44 GiB6cc-by-4.0
whisper-large-v31.5B0.49 GiB18apache-2.0
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2618M0.37 GiB8cc-by-4.0
canary-1b-v2980M0.37 GiB12cc-by-4.0
parakeet-ctc-0.6b609M0.44 GiB11cc-by-4.0
Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512830M0.52 GiB6other
Fun-ASR-Nano-2512830M0.52 GiB9other

More permissively licensed

licences that allow commercial use
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
parakeet-unified-en-0.6b618M0.44 GiB6cc-by-4.0
cohere-transcribe-03-20262.1B1.41 GiB11apache-2.0
whisper-medium764M0.25 GiB19apache-2.0
Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-26024.4B2.35 GiB8apache-2.0
whisper-large-v31.5B0.49 GiB18apache-2.0
canary-180m-flash189M0.13 GiB6cc-by-4.0
whisper-large-v3-turbo809M0.27 GiB31apache-2.0
Qwen3-ASR-1.7B2.3B1.23 GiB13apache-2.0
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 alternatives — smaller, similar, or more permissively licensed — ossmodeldb