Model comparison

Minimax-M3-abliterated-clean vs Kimi-K2.7-Code

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes. At long context the gap widens: Kimi-K2.7-Code'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

Minimax-M3-abliterated-cleanKimi-K2.7-Code
Parameters427B1059B
Architectureminimax-m3deepseek2
Layers6061
Native context1,048,576262,144
Mixture of expertsyes, 128 expertsyes, 384 experts
Quantizations published219
Smallest quantization144.37 GiB283.04 GiB
Q4_K_M
Licenceotherother

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextMinimax-M3-abliterated-cleanKimi-K2.7-CodeRatio
4,0960.47 GiB0.27 GiB1.75×
8,1920.94 GiB0.54 GiB1.75×
16,3841.88 GiB1.07 GiB1.75×
32,7683.75 GiB2.14 GiB1.75×
65,5367.50 GiB4.29 GiB1.75×
131,07215.00 GiB8.58 GiB1.75×