Model comparison

Maestro1-9B vs Qwen3-4B

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Maestro1-9BQwen3-4B
Parameters8.8B4.0B
Architectureqwen3vlqwen3
Layers3636
Native context262,14440,960
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published3829
Smallest quantization1.97 GiB1.01 GiB
Q4_K_M2.33 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextMaestro1-9BQwen3-4BRatio
4,0960.56 GiB0.56 GiB1.00×
8,1921.13 GiB1.13 GiB1.00×
16,3842.25 GiB2.25 GiB1.00×
32,7684.50 GiB4.50 GiB1.00×
65,5369.00 GiB9.00 GiB1.00×
131,07218.00 GiB18.00 GiB1.00×