Is Cydonia-24B-v4.3-heretic or Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct smaller?

Cydonia-24B-v4.3-heretic is smaller at Q4_K_M: 13.35 GiB against 17.28 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — its KV cache at 32K context is 1.7x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Cydonia-24B-v4.3-heretic vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct

At Q4_K_M, Cydonia-24B-v4.3-heretic is the smaller download — 14,333,911,104 bytes against 18,556,689,568. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct's KV cache at 32K is 1.7× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Cydonia-24B-v4.3-heretic	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
Parameters	23.6B	30.5B
Architecture	llama	qwen3moe
Layers	40	48
Native context	131,072	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	yes, 128 experts
Quantizations published	34	46
Smallest quantization	4.91 GiB	7.46 GiB
Q4_K_M	13.35 GiB	17.28 GiB
Licence	—	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Cydonia-24B-v4.3-heretic	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	Ratio
4,096	0.63 GiB	0.38 GiB	1.67×
8,192	1.25 GiB	0.75 GiB	1.67×
16,384	2.50 GiB	1.50 GiB	1.67×
32,768	5.00 GiB	3.00 GiB	1.67×
65,536	10.00 GiB	6.00 GiB	1.67×
131,072	20.00 GiB	12.00 GiB	1.67×