Decision Workspace
julius vs parakeet-rs vs whisper-apr
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
35
julius
growingv1.0.0
Wrapper for Julius
60
parakeet-rs
experimentalv0.3.4
Fast ASR & Speaker Diarization with NVIDIA Parakeet via ONNX
56
whisper-apr
experimentalv0.2.7
WASM-first automatic speech recognition engine implementing OpenAI Whisper
Core Metrics
| julius | parakeet-rs | whisper-apr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 35 | 60 | 56 |
| Total Downloads | 6.7K | 10.7K | 1.4K |
| 30d Downloads | 5 | 3.5K | 496 |
| Dependents | 0 | 32 | 25 |
| Releases | 3 | 25 | 9 |
| Last Updated | 3759d ago | 21d ago | 11d ago |
| Age | 11y 4m | 5m | 2m |
Health Breakdown
julius
Maintenance
3
Quality
20
Community
2
Popularity
5
Documentation
5
parakeet-rs
Maintenance
19
Quality
16
Community
10
Popularity
5
Documentation
10
whisper-apr
Maintenance
15
Quality
12
Community
10
Popularity
4
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| julius | parakeet-rs | whisper-apr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.0 | 0.3.4 | 0.2.7 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | Unknown | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 2 | 8 | 47 |
| Crate Size | 46KB | 71KB | 956KB |
| Features | 0 | 15 | 24 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | — | 2021 | 2021 |
| MSRV | — | — | 1.75 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •parakeet-rs leads with a health score of 60/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •⚠ julius has not been updated in over a year.
- •parakeet-rs, whisper-apr are pre-1.0 — API may change.