Is Codestral-22B-v0.1 or gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized smaller?

Both publish quantizations; compare the table for the exact sizes.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.8x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Codestral-22B-v0.1 vs gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized's KV cache at 32K is 2.8× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Codestral-22B-v0.1	gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized
Parameters	22.2B	12.0B
Architecture	llama	gemma4
Layers	56	48
Native context	32,768	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	50	2
Smallest quantization	4.50 GiB	6.50 GiB
Q4_K_M	12.42 GiB	—
Licence	other	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Codestral-22B-v0.1	gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized	Ratio
4,096	0.88 GiB	0.72 GiB	1.22×
8,192	1.75 GiB	0.97 GiB	1.81×
16,384	3.50 GiB	1.47 GiB	2.38×
32,768	7.00 GiB	2.47 GiB	2.84×
65,536	14.00 GiB	4.47 GiB	3.13×
131,072	28.00 GiB	8.47 GiB	3.31×