whisperkit-coreml vs distil-large-v3

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

argmaxinc · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
—
30d
51.6 M
mit · commercial OK
distil-whisper · B · Open weights
Params
760 M
Context
—
30d
747 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification whisperkit-coreml distil-large-v3
Parameters — 760 M
Architecture — WhisperForConditionalGeneration
Context length — —
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 51,550,655 747,061
Downloads all time 135.3 M 21.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-28 2024-03-21

Download trend

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

51.6 M500 K
whisperkit-coreml distil-large-v3

VRAM side by side

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

distil-large-v3 · fp16 5.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

Adjacent comparisons