Model comparison
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vs pixtral-12b
At Q4_K_M, pixtral-12b is the smaller download — 7,477,204,608 bytes against 21,166,757,728. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B's KV cache at 32K is 8.0× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | pixtral-12b | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 36.0B | 12.7B |
| Architecture | qwen35moe | llama |
| Layers | 40 | 40 |
| Native context | 262,144 | 1,024,000 |
| Mixture of experts | yes, 256 experts | no |
| Quantizations published | 61 | 32 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.77 GiB | 3.85 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 19.71 GiB | 6.96 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | pixtral-12b | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.08 GiB | 0.63 GiB | 7.99× |
| 8,192 | 0.16 GiB | 1.25 GiB | 8.00× |
| 16,384 | 0.31 GiB | 2.50 GiB | 8.00× |
| 32,768 | 0.63 GiB | 5.00 GiB | 8.00× |
| 65,536 | 1.25 GiB | 10.00 GiB | 8.00× |
| 131,072 | 2.50 GiB | 20.00 GiB | 8.00× |