Whisper small/tiny/base are almost four years old (they were not updated for Whisper v2 or v3). Is there really nothing better to benchmark against by now?
There's tons, Parakeet was the last I remember seeing which seemed to gain traction (independent lightweight implementations etc).
There are many [0], you can search and filter by streaming and open weight only as well.
Looks like Voxtral and Nvidia's Nemotron are best.
[0] https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text/non-streaming