Model comparison

Qwen3.6-27B vs DeepSWE-Preview

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.6-27B is the smaller download — 16,547,397,888 bytes against 19,762,149,536. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-27B's KV cache at 32K is 4.0× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Qwen3.6-27BDeepSWE-Preview
Parameters27.8B32.8B
Architectureqwen35qwen3
Layers6464
Native context262,14440,960
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published4030
Smallest quantization8.74 GiB8.40 GiB
Q4_K_M15.41 GiB18.40 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0mit

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextQwen3.6-27BDeepSWE-PreviewRatio
4,0960.25 GiB1.00 GiB4.00×
8,1920.50 GiB2.00 GiB4.00×
16,3841.00 GiB4.00 GiB4.00×
32,7682.00 GiB8.00 GiB4.00×
65,5364.00 GiB16.00 GiB4.00×
131,0728.00 GiB32.00 GiB4.00×