whisper-large-v3 vs wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-welsh

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 18 September 2026.

openai · A
Params
1.5 B
Context
30d
4.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
infinitejoy · B
Params
300 M
Context
30d
567 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification whisper-large-v3 wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-welsh
Parameters 1.5 B 300 M
Architecture WhisperForConditionalGeneration Wav2Vec2ForCTC
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 99 1
Downloads 30d 4,650,439 566,860
Downloads all time 147.0 M 2.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-07 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

6.0 M374 K
whisper-large-v3 wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-welsh

VRAM side by side

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

whisper-large-v3 · fp16 10.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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