Model comparison

whisper-large-v3 vs parakeet-unified-en-0.6b

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-unified-en-0.6b is the smaller download — 477,274,496 bytes against 997,303,008.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-large-v3parakeet-unified-en-0.6b
Parameters1.5B618M
Architecturewhisperparakeet
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published186
Smallest quantization0.49 GiB0.44 GiB
Q4_K_M0.93 GiB0.44 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-large-v3parakeet-unified-en-0.6bRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072