whisper-base vs faster-whisper-medium
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | whisper-base | faster-whisper-medium |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 70 M | — |
| Architecture | WhisperForConditionalGeneration | — |
| Context length | — | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 99 | 99 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,759,784 | 514,341 |
| Downloads all time | 46.7 M | 9.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-09-26 | 2023-11-23 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
6.4 M514 K
whisper-base
faster-whisper-medium
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
whisper-base · fp16
0.8 GB / 24 GB