whisper-large-v3-turbo vs distil-large-v3

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

openai · A

Params

810 M

Context

—

30d

8.7 M

mit · commercial OK

distil-whisper · B

Params

760 M

Context

—

30d

1.7 M

mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	whisper-large-v3-turbo	distil-large-v3
Parameters	810 M	760 M
Architecture	WhisperForConditionalGeneration	WhisperForConditionalGeneration
Context length	—	—
Licence	mit	mit
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	99	1
Downloads 30d	8,715,451	1,712,564
Downloads all time	106.8 M	19.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-10-01	2024-03-21

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

8.7 M1.6 M

whisper-large-v3-turbo distil-large-v3

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

whisper-large-v3-turbo · fp16 2.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

distil-large-v3 · fp16 5.6 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably