Model comparison

parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m vs canary-180m-flash

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m is the smaller download — 89,989,600 bytes against 139,223,744.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-tdt_ctc-110mcanary-180m-flash
Parameters114M189M
Architectureparakeetcanary
Layers
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published86
Smallest quantization0.07 GiB0.13 GiB
Q4_K_M0.08 GiB0.13 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-tdt_ctc-110mcanary-180m-flashRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072