Model comparison

whisper-base.en vs canary-180m-flash

At Q4_K_M, whisper-base.en is the smaller download — 58,794,272 bytes against 139,223,744.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-base.encanary-180m-flash
Parameters73M189M
Architecturewhispercanary
Layers6
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published66
Smallest quantization0.05 GiB0.13 GiB
Q4_K_M0.05 GiB0.13 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-base.encanary-180m-flashRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072