Model comparison

granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus vs parakeet-unified-en-0.6b

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-unified-en-0.6b is the smaller download — 477,274,496 bytes against 1,023,646,816.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

granite-speech-4.1-2b-plusparakeet-unified-en-0.6b
Parameters2.1B618M
Architecturegranite_speechparakeet
Layers40
Native context4,096
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published136
Smallest quantization0.95 GiB0.44 GiB
Q4_K_M0.95 GiB0.44 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgranite-speech-4.1-2b-plusparakeet-unified-en-0.6bRatio
4,0960.31 GiB
8,1920.63 GiB
16,3841.25 GiB
32,7682.50 GiB
65,5365.00 GiB
131,07210.00 GiB