whisper-base vs Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 July 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | whisper-base | Phi-4-multimodal-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 70 M | 5.6 B |
| Architecture | WhisperForConditionalGeneration | Phi4MMForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 99 | 24 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,759,784 | 571,625 |
| Downloads all time | 46.7 M | 8.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-09-26 | 2025-02-24 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
6.4 M539 K
whisper-base
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
whisper-base · fp16
0.8 GB / 24 GB
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
28.0 GB / 24 GB