Model comparison
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vs Pixtral-12B-2409
At Q4_K_M, Pixtral-12B-2409 is the smaller download — 7,703,795,680 bytes against 21,166,757,728.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Pixtral-12B-2409 | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 36.0B | 12.2B |
| Architecture | qwen35moe | llama |
| Layers | 40 | — |
| Native context | 262,144 | — |
| Mixture of experts | yes, 256 experts | no |
| Quantizations published | 61 | 16 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.77 GiB | 4.77 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 19.71 GiB | 7.17 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-2409 | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.08 GiB | — | — |
| 8,192 | 0.16 GiB | — | — |
| 16,384 | 0.31 GiB | — | — |
| 32,768 | 0.63 GiB | — | — |
| 65,536 | 1.25 GiB | — | — |
| 131,072 | 2.50 GiB | — | — |