Model comparison

ARK-ASR-3B vs cohere-transcribe-03-2026

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

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

ARK-ASR-3Bcohere-transcribe-03-2026
Parameters4.1B2.1B
Architecturearkasrcohere_asr
Layers36
Native context32,768
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published311
Smallest quantization3.28 GiB1.41 GiB
Q4_K_M1.45 GiB
Licenceotherapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextARK-ASR-3Bcohere-transcribe-03-2026Ratio
4,0960.14 GiB
8,1920.28 GiB
16,3840.56 GiB
32,7681.13 GiB
65,5362.25 GiB
131,0724.50 GiB