Model comparison

whisper-large-v3-turbo vs canary-180m-flash

At Q4_K_M, canary-180m-flash is the smaller download — 139,223,744 bytes against 536,069,728.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-large-v3-turbocanary-180m-flash
Parameters809M189M
Architecturewhispercanary
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published316
Smallest quantization0.27 GiB0.13 GiB
Q4_K_M0.50 GiB0.13 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-large-v3-turbocanary-180m-flashRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072