Model comparison
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it vs Muse-Glimmer-30B
At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-26B-A4B-it is the smaller download — 16,796,017,248 bytes against 17,306,324,000. At long context the gap widens: Muse-Glimmer-30B's KV cache at 32K is 3.1× 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-it | Muse-Glimmer-30B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 26.5B | 29.8B |
| Architecture | gemma4 | muse-glimmer |
| Layers | 30 | 52 |
| Native context | 262,144 | 131,072 |
| Mixture of experts | yes, 128 experts | no |
| Quantizations published | 46 | 36 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.99 GiB | 8.31 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 15.64 GiB | 16.12 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | Muse-Glimmer-30B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.45 GiB | 0.15 GiB | 3.08× |
| 8,192 | 0.61 GiB | 0.20 GiB | 3.08× |
| 16,384 | 0.92 GiB | 0.30 GiB | 3.08× |
| 32,768 | 1.54 GiB | 0.50 GiB | 3.08× |
| 65,536 | 2.79 GiB | 0.91 GiB | 3.08× |
| 131,072 | 5.29 GiB | 1.72 GiB | 3.08× |