Model comparison
pixtral-12b vs gemma-4-26B-A4B-it
At Q4_K_M, pixtral-12b is the smaller download — 7,477,204,608 bytes against 16,796,017,248. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-26B-A4B-it's KV cache at 32K is 3.2× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| pixtral-12b | gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 12.7B | 26.5B |
| Architecture | llama | gemma4 |
| Layers | 40 | 30 |
| Native context | 1,024,000 | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | no | yes, 128 experts |
| Quantizations published | 32 | 46 |
| Smallest quantization | 3.85 GiB | 8.99 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 6.96 GiB | 15.64 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | pixtral-12b | gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.63 GiB | 0.45 GiB | 1.39× |
| 8,192 | 1.25 GiB | 0.61 GiB | 2.06× |
| 16,384 | 2.50 GiB | 0.92 GiB | 2.72× |
| 32,768 | 5.00 GiB | 1.54 GiB | 3.24× |
| 65,536 | 10.00 GiB | 2.79 GiB | 3.58× |
| 131,072 | 20.00 GiB | 5.29 GiB | 3.78× |