Is harrier-oss-v1-270m or Qwen3-1.7B smaller?

harrier-oss-v1-270m is smaller at Q4_K_M: 0.24 GiB against 1.03 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

harrier-oss-v1-270m — its KV cache at 32K context is 6.2x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

harrier-oss-v1-270m vs Qwen3-1.7B

At Q4_K_M, harrier-oss-v1-270m is the smaller download — 253,114,048 bytes against 1,107,409,472. At long context the gap widens: harrier-oss-v1-270m's KV cache at 32K is 6.2× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	harrier-oss-v1-270m	Qwen3-1.7B
Parameters	268M	2.0B
Architecture	gemma3	qwen3
Layers	18	28
Native context	32,768	40,960
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	10	48
Smallest quantization	0.23 GiB	0.50 GiB
Q4_K_M	0.24 GiB	1.03 GiB
Licence	mit	—

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	harrier-oss-v1-270m	Qwen3-1.7B	Ratio
4,096	0.07 GiB	0.44 GiB	6.22×
8,192	0.14 GiB	0.88 GiB	6.22×
16,384	0.28 GiB	1.75 GiB	6.22×
32,768	0.56 GiB	3.50 GiB	6.22×
65,536	1.13 GiB	7.00 GiB	6.22×
131,072	2.25 GiB	14.00 GiB	6.22×