Is EXAONE-4.0-1.2B-abliterated or Qwen3-4B smaller?

EXAONE-4.0-1.2B-abliterated is smaller at Q4_K_M: 0.87 GiB against 2.33 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

EXAONE-4.0-1.2B-abliterated — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.4x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

EXAONE-4.0-1.2B-abliterated vs Qwen3-4B

At Q4_K_M, EXAONE-4.0-1.2B-abliterated is the smaller download — 930,403,456 bytes against 2,497,280,256. At long context the gap widens: EXAONE-4.0-1.2B-abliterated's KV cache at 32K is 2.4× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	EXAONE-4.0-1.2B-abliterated	Qwen3-4B
Parameters	1.5B	4.0B
Architecture	exaone4	qwen3
Layers	30	36
Native context	65,536	40,960
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	36	29
Smallest quantization	0.42 GiB	1.01 GiB
Q4_K_M	0.87 GiB	2.33 GiB
Licence	—	—

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	EXAONE-4.0-1.2B-abliterated	Qwen3-4B	Ratio
4,096	0.23 GiB	0.56 GiB	2.40×
8,192	0.47 GiB	1.13 GiB	2.40×
16,384	0.94 GiB	2.25 GiB	2.40×
32,768	1.88 GiB	4.50 GiB	2.40×
65,536	3.75 GiB	9.00 GiB	2.40×
131,072	7.50 GiB	18.00 GiB	2.40×