Model comparison
granite-4.0-micro-base vs Qwen3-4B
At Q4_K_M, granite-4.0-micro-base is the smaller download — 2,099,496,064 bytes against 2,497,280,256. At long context the gap widens: granite-4.0-micro-base's KV cache at 32K is 1.8× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| granite-4.0-micro-base | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 3.4B | 4.0B |
| Architecture | granite | qwen3 |
| Layers | 40 | 36 |
| Native context | 131,072 | 40,960 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 15 | 29 |
| Smallest quantization | 1.28 GiB | 1.01 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 1.96 GiB | 2.33 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | granite-4.0-micro-base | Qwen3-4B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.31 GiB | 0.56 GiB | 1.80× |
| 8,192 | 0.63 GiB | 1.13 GiB | 1.80× |
| 16,384 | 1.25 GiB | 2.25 GiB | 1.80× |
| 32,768 | 2.50 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 1.80× |
| 65,536 | 5.00 GiB | 9.00 GiB | 1.80× |
| 131,072 | 10.00 GiB | 18.00 GiB | 1.80× |