Is octo-net or Qwen3-8B smaller?

octo-net is smaller at Q4_K_M: 2.23 GiB against 4.68 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3-8B — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.7x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

octo-net vs Qwen3-8B

At Q4_K_M, octo-net is the smaller download — 2,393,231,136 bytes against 5,027,783,488. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3-8B's KV cache at 32K is 2.7× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	octo-net	Qwen3-8B
Parameters	3.8B	8.2B
Architecture	phi3	qwen3
Layers	32	36
Native context	131,072	40,960
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	18	51
Smallest quantization	1.32 GiB	2.12 GiB
Q4_K_M	2.23 GiB	4.68 GiB
Licence	cc-by-nc-4.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	octo-net	Qwen3-8B	Ratio
4,096	1.50 GiB	0.56 GiB	2.67×
8,192	3.00 GiB	1.13 GiB	2.67×
16,384	6.00 GiB	2.25 GiB	2.67×
32,768	12.00 GiB	4.50 GiB	2.67×
65,536	24.00 GiB	9.00 GiB	2.67×
131,072	48.00 GiB	18.00 GiB	2.67×