Is gemma-4-31B-it-abliterated-v3 or Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct smaller?

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is smaller at Q4_K_M: 17.28 GiB against 17.40 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.1x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

gemma-4-31B-it-abliterated-v3 vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is the smaller download — 18,556,689,568 bytes against 18,687,063,200. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct's KV cache at 32K is 2.1× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	gemma-4-31B-it-abliterated-v3	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
Parameters	31.3B	30.5B
Architecture	gemma4	qwen3moe
Layers	60	48
Native context	262,144	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	yes, 128 experts
Quantizations published	34	46
Smallest quantization	6.67 GiB	7.46 GiB
Q4_K_M	17.40 GiB	17.28 GiB
Licence	gemma	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	gemma-4-31B-it-abliterated-v3	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	Ratio
4,096	1.80 GiB	0.38 GiB	4.79×
8,192	2.42 GiB	0.75 GiB	3.23×
16,384	3.67 GiB	1.50 GiB	2.45×
32,768	6.17 GiB	3.00 GiB	2.06×
65,536	11.17 GiB	6.00 GiB	1.86×
131,072	21.17 GiB	12.00 GiB	1.76×