Model comparison

whisper-small.en vs parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

At Q4_K_M, whisper-small.en is the smaller download — 171,553,856 bytes against 475,491,840.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-small.enparakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
Parameters242M618M
Architecturewhisperparakeet
Layers12
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published68
Smallest quantization0.16 GiB0.37 GiB
Q4_K_M0.16 GiB0.44 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-small.enparakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072