Model comparison

Qwen3.6-27B vs merlinite-7b-lab

At Q4_K_M, merlinite-7b-lab is the smaller download — 4,368,484,992 bytes against 16,547,397,888.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Qwen3.6-27Bmerlinite-7b-lab
Parameters27.8B7.2B
Architectureqwen35llama
Layers6432
Native context262,14432,768
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published401
Smallest quantization8.74 GiB4.07 GiB
Q4_K_M15.41 GiB4.07 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextQwen3.6-27Bmerlinite-7b-labRatio
4,0960.25 GiB
8,1920.50 GiB
16,3841.00 GiB
32,7682.00 GiB
65,5364.00 GiB
131,0728.00 GiB