Alternatives to qwen3.5-4b-agentic-coder-v4

qwen3.5-4b-agentic-coder-v4 alternatives

qwen3.5-4b-agentic-coder-v4's smallest published quantization is 1.82 GiB. The models below do the same job with a different trade — less memory, comparable size, or a more permissive licence.

From the file· sizes from summed file bytes

Meaningfully smaller

under 70% of its smallest quantization
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen3-4B4.0B1.01 GiB29—
HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Text-Instruct-1.5B1.6B1.06 GiB1other
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2B0.39 GiB39—
ced-base86M0.12 GiB3apache-2.0
gemma-3-1b-it1000M0.52 GiB28gemma
Qwen3-1.7B2.0B0.50 GiB48—
embeddinggemma-300m303M0.26 GiB10—
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2B0.85 GiB39—

Comparable in size

within ±40%, so a like-for-like swap
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen3-8B8.2B2.12 GiB51apache-2.0
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v18.8B1.97 GiB48apache-2.0
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct8.0B2.02 GiB45llama3.1
Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct4.4B1.56 GiB49apache-2.0
gemma-3-4b-it4.3B1.43 GiB28—
Ornith-1.0-9B9.2B2.26 GiB48mit
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B8.2B2.11 GiB47mit

More permissively licensed

licences that allow commercial use
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-InstructMoE30.5B7.46 GiB46apache-2.0
Qwen3.6-27B27.8B8.74 GiB40apache-2.0
Qwen3.8-27B27.8B8.39 GiB22apache-2.0
DeepSeek-V4-FlashMoE291B76.87 GiB12mit
gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized12.0B6.50 GiB2apache-2.0
gemma-4-E4B-it8.0B3.30 GiB36apache-2.0
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507MoE30.5B7.05 GiB51apache-2.0
Qwen3-8B8.2B2.12 GiB51apache-2.0