Is Openprose-2-Flash or Qwen3.6-27B smaller?

Openprose-2-Flash is smaller at Q4_K_M: 5.38 GiB against 15.41 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Openprose-2-Flash — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.0x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Openprose-2-Flash vs Qwen3.6-27B

At Q4_K_M, Openprose-2-Flash is the smaller download — 5,780,091,296 bytes against 16,547,397,888. At long context the gap widens: Openprose-2-Flash's KV cache at 32K is 2.0× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Openprose-2-Flash	Qwen3.6-27B
Parameters	9.7B	27.8B
Architecture	qwen35	qwen35
Layers	32	64
Native context	262,144	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	27	40
Smallest quantization	3.65 GiB	8.74 GiB
Q4_K_M	5.38 GiB	15.41 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Openprose-2-Flash	Qwen3.6-27B	Ratio
4,096	0.13 GiB	0.25 GiB	2.00×
8,192	0.25 GiB	0.50 GiB	2.00×
16,384	0.50 GiB	1.00 GiB	2.00×
32,768	1.00 GiB	2.00 GiB	2.00×
65,536	2.00 GiB	4.00 GiB	2.00×
131,072	4.00 GiB	8.00 GiB	2.00×