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parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 vs whisper-large-v3-turbo
Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 has 627M parameters and whisper-large-v3-turbo has 809M parameters; parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 and whisper-large-v3-turbo under MIT License; at 16-bit, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 needs about 1.5 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour) and whisper-large-v3-turbo about 1.9 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour).
| Field | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | whisper-large-v3-turbo openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | MLX Community | OpenAI |
| Task | Speech recognition | Speech recognition |
| Modality | Audio | Audio |
| Parameters, as reported | 627M parameters | 809M parameters |
| Architecture | Not stated | WhisperForConditionalGeneration |
| Library | mlx | transformers |
| Context length | Not stated | Not stated |
| Repository size | 2.5 GB | 1.6 GB |
| Artifact formats | safetensors, mlx | safetensors |
| License | cc-by-4.0 | mit |
| Access | Open weights, no gate | Open weights, no gate |
| Memory at 16-bit (weights and margin) | 1.5 GB | 1.9 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 16-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Memory at 4-bit (weights and margin) | 0.4 GB | 0.5 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 4-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Revision viewed | ed2b7e8c15f9 | 41f01f3fe87f |
| Downloads reported by the hub | 1.8M | 6.8M |
| Last observed | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
An evaluation row appears only where at least two of these models report the same benchmark with the same stated configuration, metric, unit and setup. Different evaluators stay named in each cell. Values are shown as reported: no unit conversion, no ranking.
Other Reported Results
These results are listed for each model on its own, because the conditions needed to compare them are not stated or do not match. Two results that leave a condition blank are not assumed to share it.
whisper-large-v3-turbo
| Benchmark | Conditions | Result | Reported by | Revision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task ami_werMetric ami_werComparison conditions not established | 16.13 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task earnings22_werMetric earnings22_werComparison conditions not established | 11.63 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task gigaspeech_werMetric gigaspeech_werComparison conditions not established | 10.14 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task librispeech_clean_werMetric librispeech_clean_werComparison conditions not established | 2.1 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task librispeech_other_werMetric librispeech_other_werComparison conditions not established | 4.24 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task mean_werMetric mean_werComparison conditions not established | 7.83 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task rtfxMetric rtfxComparison conditions not established | 200.19 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task spgispeech_werMetric spgispeech_werComparison conditions not established | 2.97 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task tedlium_werMetric tedlium_werComparison conditions not established | 3.57 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
| hf-audio/open-asr-leaderboard | Task voxpopuli_werMetric voxpopuli_werComparison conditions not established | 11.87 | open-asr-leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2024-10-01 |
SAVRN's Notes on parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
The job is speech recognition, and at 627M parameters the memory math is trivial: 1.5 GB at 16-bit, 0.8 GB at 8-bit, 0.4 GB at 4-bit. The cheapest Index listing that fits is one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour on demand, so the hardware question is not which card but whether transcription needs its own card. The files are packaged for the mlx library in safetensors and mlx formats, so confirm your serving stack reads them.
CC BY 4.0 asks little: commercial use is allowed, you credit the creator and note any changes. Two checks before committing. This is a conversion, published by the MLX Community as derived from nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3, and the publisher points back to the original card for details, so verify behavior there. With no context length or host token price on file, budget the run in GPU hours, not tokens.
SAVRN's Notes on whisper-large-v3-turbo
The lineage explains the size. This speech recognition build descends from openai/whisper-large-v3, pruned and fine-tuned with the decoding layers cut from 32 to 4, and lands at 809M parameters needing 1.9 GB at 16-bit, 1.0 GB at 8-bit or 0.5 GB at 4-bit. Against the cheapest listed rental, one 192 GB MI300X at $1.85 an hour, the design question we ask is how many audio streams to stack on one card, not whether it fits.
MIT asks for almost nothing: keep the copyright and permission notices, and commercial use, modification and redistribution are all yours. The reported evaluations are third-party figures and uneven by source, a mean word error rate of 7.83 with 2.1 on LibriSpeech clean and 16.13 on AMI, so pick the row that sounds like your audio. No context length is listed, so the audio window is a question for the publisher's documentation.
Questions
Which is larger, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 or whisper-large-v3-turbo?
whisper-large-v3-turbo (809M parameters) is larger than parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (627M parameters), by the parameter counts their publishers report.
Which is cheaper to run, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 or whisper-large-v3-turbo?
At 4-bit, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour and whisper-large-v3-turbo on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.
Can I use parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 commercially?
Yes. parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. CC BY 4.0 permits sharing and adapting the work, including commercially, provided the creator is credited and changes are indicated.
Can I use whisper-large-v3-turbo commercially?
Yes. whisper-large-v3-turbo is released under MIT License. The MIT License is a short permissive license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included.