Model comparison
Qwen3.5-9B vs Pixtral-12B-2409
At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.5-9B is the smaller download — 5,627,044,256 bytes against 7,703,795,680.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3.5-9B | Pixtral-12B-2409 | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 9.7B | 12.2B |
| Architecture | qwen35 | llama |
| Layers | 32 | — |
| Native context | 262,144 | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 34 | 16 |
| Smallest quantization | 2.97 GiB | 4.77 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 5.24 GiB | 7.17 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3.5-9B | Pixtral-12B-2409 | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.13 GiB | — | — |
| 8,192 | 0.25 GiB | — | — |
| 16,384 | 0.50 GiB | — | — |
| 32,768 | 1.00 GiB | — | — |
| 65,536 | 2.00 GiB | — | — |
| 131,072 | 4.00 GiB | — | — |