Fact · Dictation software
244million parameters
The Whisper small model has 244 million parameters and needs about 2 GB of memory.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“small 244 M small.en small ~2 GB ~4x”
openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision, OpenAI, GitHub (OpenAI repository), 2023, Available models and languages table.
Open the original- What it measures
- The same table as the tiny model fact.
- What it does not show
- Memory figures are approximate and refer to the model, not the app that runs it.