Model comparison

Qwen3.8-27B vs Seed-OSS-36B-Base

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.8-27B is the smaller download — 16,810,714,336 bytes against 21,762,145,216. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.8-27B'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

Qwen3.8-27BSeed-OSS-36B-Base
Parameters27.8B36.2B
Architectureqwen35seed_oss
Layers6464
Native context262,144524,288
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published225
Smallest quantization8.39 GiB16.41 GiB
Q4_K_M15.66 GiB20.27 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextQwen3.8-27BSeed-OSS-36B-BaseRatio
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×