whisperkit-coreml vs Qwen3-ASR-1.7B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

argmaxinc · A
Params
Context
30d
11.1 M
mit · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
2.4 B
Context
30d
2.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification whisperkit-coreml Qwen3-ASR-1.7B
Parameters 2.4 B
Architecture Qwen3ASRForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 11,101,198 2,221,488
Downloads all time 75.5 M 15.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-28 2026-01-28

Download trend

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

11.7 M1.9 M
whisperkit-coreml Qwen3-ASR-1.7B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-ASR-1.7B · fp16 6.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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