Model comparison

canary-180m-flash vs whisper-large-v3-turbo

At Q4_K_M, canary-180m-flash is the smaller download — 139,223,744 bytes against 536,069,728.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

canary-180m-flashwhisper-large-v3-turbo
Parameters189M809M
Architecturecanarywhisper
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published631
Smallest quantization0.13 GiB0.27 GiB
Q4_K_M0.13 GiB0.50 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextcanary-180m-flashwhisper-large-v3-turboRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072