Model comparison

parakeet-tdt_ctc-1.1b vs whisper-large-v3

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-tdt_ctc-1.1b is the smaller download — 825,248,000 bytes against 997,303,008.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-tdt_ctc-1.1bwhisper-large-v3
Parameters1.1B1.5B
Architectureparakeetwhisper
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published818
Smallest quantization0.64 GiB0.49 GiB
Q4_K_M0.77 GiB0.93 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-tdt_ctc-1.1bwhisper-large-v3Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072
parakeet-tdt_ctc-1.1b vs whisper-large-v3 — size, memory and hardware fit — ossmodeldb