Is Qwen3.5-40B-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-Reasoning-Thinking-uncensored-heretic or gemma-4-26B-A4B-it smaller?

gemma-4-26B-A4B-it is smaller at Q4_K_M: 15.64 GiB against 22.29 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-4-26B-A4B-it — its KV cache at 32K context is 1.9x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwen3.5-40B-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-Reasoning-Thinking-uncensored-heretic vs gemma-4-26B-A4B-it

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-26B-A4B-it is the smaller download — 16,796,017,248 bytes against 23,936,565,408. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-26B-A4B-it's KV cache at 32K is 1.9× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Qwen3.5-40B-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-Reasoning-Thinking-uncensored-heretic	gemma-4-26B-A4B-it
Parameters	39.5B	26.5B
Architecture	qwen35	gemma4
Layers	96	30
Native context	262,144	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	yes, 128 experts
Quantizations published	12	46
Smallest quantization	22.29 GiB	8.99 GiB
Q4_K_M	22.29 GiB	15.64 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwen3.5-40B-Claude-4.5-Opus-High-Reasoning-Thinking-uncensored-heretic	gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	Ratio
4,096	0.38 GiB	0.45 GiB	1.20×
8,192	0.75 GiB	0.61 GiB	1.24×
16,384	1.50 GiB	0.92 GiB	1.63×
32,768	3.00 GiB	1.54 GiB	1.94×
65,536	6.00 GiB	2.79 GiB	2.15×
131,072	12.00 GiB	5.29 GiB	2.27×