Model comparison

Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v1

At Q4_K_M, Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 is the smaller download — 4,368,439,584 bytes against 5,027,785,792.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v1
Parameters7.2B8.8B
Architecturellamaqwen3vl
Layers32
Native context32,768
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published3448
Smallest quantization1.50 GiB1.97 GiB
Q4_K_M4.07 GiB4.68 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextMistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v1Ratio
4,0960.50 GiB
8,1921.00 GiB
16,3842.00 GiB
32,7684.00 GiB
65,5368.00 GiB
131,07216.00 GiB