Model comparison
fable-coder-35B-A3B vs Qwen3.8-27B
At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.8-27B is the smaller download — 16,810,714,336 bytes against 21,713,462,496. At long context the gap widens: fable-coder-35B-A3B's KV cache at 32K is 3.2× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| fable-coder-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 36.0B | 27.8B |
| Architecture | qwen35moe | qwen35 |
| Layers | 40 | 64 |
| Native context | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | yes, 256 experts | no |
| Quantizations published | 29 | 22 |
| Smallest quantization | 12.34 GiB | 8.39 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 20.22 GiB | 15.66 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | fable-coder-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.08 GiB | 0.25 GiB | 3.20× |
| 8,192 | 0.16 GiB | 0.50 GiB | 3.20× |
| 16,384 | 0.31 GiB | 1.00 GiB | 3.20× |
| 32,768 | 0.63 GiB | 2.00 GiB | 3.20× |
| 65,536 | 1.25 GiB | 4.00 GiB | 3.20× |
| 131,072 | 2.50 GiB | 8.00 GiB | 3.20× |