Model comparison

gemma4-26B-it vs gemma-4-26B-A4B-it

At Q4_K_M, gemma4-26B-it is the smaller download — 16,796,015,488 bytes against 16,796,017,248.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

gemma4-26B-itgemma-4-26B-A4B-it
Parameters25.2B26.5B
Architecturegemma4gemma4
Layers30
Native context262,144
Mixture of expertsnoyes, 128 experts
Quantizations published446
Smallest quantization15.64 GiB8.99 GiB
Q4_K_M15.64 GiB15.64 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma4-26B-itgemma-4-26B-A4B-itRatio
4,0960.45 GiB
8,1920.61 GiB
16,3840.92 GiB
32,7681.54 GiB
65,5362.79 GiB
131,0725.29 GiB