Model comparison

whisper-base.en vs parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m

At Q4_K_M, whisper-base.en is the smaller download — 58,794,272 bytes against 89,989,600.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-base.enparakeet-tdt_ctc-110m
Parameters73M114M
Architecturewhisperparakeet
Layers6
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published68
Smallest quantization0.05 GiB0.07 GiB
Q4_K_M0.05 GiB0.08 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-base.enparakeet-tdt_ctc-110mRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072