faster-whisper-small vs parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Systran · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
—
30d
5.7 M
mit · commercial OK
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
630 M
Context
—
30d
540 K
cc-by-4.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification faster-whisper-small parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
Parameters — 630 M
Architecture — ParakeetForTDT
Context length — —
Licence mit cc-by-4.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 99 25
Downloads 30d 5,718,052 539,941
Downloads all time 26.0 M 3.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub — GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-23 2025-08-04

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

5.7 M347 K
faster-whisper-small parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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