whisperkit-coreml vs whisper-medium-gguf

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

argmaxinc · A
Params
Context
30d
8.3 M
handy-computer · B
Params
Context
30d
518 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification whisperkit-coreml whisper-medium-gguf
Parameters
Architecture
Context length
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 99
Downloads 30d 8,311,832 518,058
Downloads all time 57.2 M 585 K
Quantizations on the Hub GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-02-28 2026-04-27

Download trend

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

8.3 M443 K
whisperkit-coreml whisper-medium-gguf

VRAM side by side

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

whisper-medium-gguf · Q4_K_M 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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