Is Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated or Qwen3-4B smaller?

Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated is smaller at Q4_K_M: 2.32 GiB against 2.33 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated — its KV cache at 32K context is 1.1x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

At Q4_K_M, Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated is the smaller download — 2,491,875,264 bytes against 2,497,280,256.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

	Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated	Qwen3-4B
Parameters	3.8B	4.0B
Architecture	phi3	qwen3
Layers	32	36
Native context	131,072	40,960
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	11	29
Smallest quantization	1.48 GiB	1.01 GiB
Q4_K_M	2.32 GiB	2.33 GiB
Licence	mit	—

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Phi-4-mini-instruct-abliterated	Qwen3-4B	Ratio
4,096	0.50 GiB	0.56 GiB	1.13×
8,192	1.00 GiB	1.13 GiB	1.13×
16,384	2.00 GiB	2.25 GiB	1.13×
32,768	4.00 GiB	4.50 GiB	1.13×
65,536	8.00 GiB	9.00 GiB	1.13×
131,072	16.00 GiB	18.00 GiB	1.13×