Is Qwen3.6-35B-A3B or supergemma4-26b-abliterated-multimodal smaller?

supergemma4-26b-abliterated-multimodal is smaller at Q4_K_M: 15.64 GiB against 19.71 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.5x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vs supergemma4-26b-abliterated-multimodal

At Q4_K_M, supergemma4-26b-abliterated-multimodal is the smaller download — 16,796,016,032 bytes against 21,166,757,728. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B's KV cache at 32K is 2.5× 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	supergemma4-26b-abliterated-multimodal
Parameters	36.0B	25.8B
Architecture	qwen35moe	gemma4
Layers	40	30
Native context	262,144	262,144
Mixture of experts	yes, 256 experts	yes, 128 experts
Quantizations published	61	1
Smallest quantization	8.77 GiB	15.64 GiB
Q4_K_M	19.71 GiB	15.64 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	gemma

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	supergemma4-26b-abliterated-multimodal	Ratio
4,096	0.08 GiB	0.45 GiB	5.75×
8,192	0.16 GiB	0.61 GiB	3.87×
16,384	0.31 GiB	0.92 GiB	2.94×
32,768	0.63 GiB	1.54 GiB	2.47×
65,536	1.25 GiB	2.79 GiB	2.23×
131,072	2.50 GiB	5.29 GiB	2.12×