whisperkit-coreml vs wav2vec2-base-960h

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

argmaxinc · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
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30d
51.6 M
mit · commercial OK
facebook · B · Open weights
Params
90 M
Context
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30d
1.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification whisperkit-coreml wav2vec2-base-960h
Parameters — 90 M
Architecture — Wav2Vec2ForCTC
Context length — —
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 51,550,655 1,786,085
Downloads all time 135.3 M 121.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-28 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

51.6 M1.3 M
whisperkit-coreml wav2vec2-base-960h

VRAM side by side

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

wav2vec2-base-960h · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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