Model comparison

gemma-4-26B-A4B-it vs gemma-4-31B-it-Mystery-Fine-Tune-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-Thinking

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-26B-A4B-it's KV cache at 32K is 4.0× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

gemma-4-26B-A4B-itgemma-4-31B-it-Mystery-Fine-Tune-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-Thinking
Parameters26.5B31.3B
Architecturegemma4gemma4
Layers3060
Native context262,144262,144
Mixture of expertsyes, 128 expertsno
Quantizations published4627
Smallest quantization8.99 GiB6.66 GiB
Q4_K_M15.64 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-26B-A4B-itgemma-4-31B-it-Mystery-Fine-Tune-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-ThinkingRatio
4,0960.45 GiB1.80 GiB4.00×
8,1920.61 GiB2.42 GiB4.00×
16,3840.92 GiB3.67 GiB4.00×
32,7681.54 GiB6.17 GiB4.00×
65,5362.79 GiB11.17 GiB4.00×
131,0725.29 GiB21.17 GiB4.00×