Model comparison
Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16 vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v1
At Q4_K_M, Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16 is the smaller download — 2,146,495,744 bytes against 5,027,785,792.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16 | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.3B | 8.8B |
| Architecture | mistral3 | qwen3vl |
| Layers | 26 | — |
| Native context | 262,144 | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 37 | 48 |
| Smallest quantization | 1.23 GiB | 1.97 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 2.00 GiB | 4.68 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-BF16 | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v1 | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.41 GiB | — | — |
| 8,192 | 0.81 GiB | — | — |
| 16,384 | 1.63 GiB | — | — |
| 32,768 | 3.25 GiB | — | — |
| 65,536 | 6.50 GiB | — | — |
| 131,072 | 13.00 GiB | — | — |