Model comparison
Pixtral-12B-2409 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
At Q4_K_M, Pixtral-12B-2409 is the smaller download — 7,703,795,680 bytes against 21,166,757,728.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Pixtral-12B-2409 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 12.2B | 36.0B |
| Architecture | llama | qwen35moe |
| Layers | — | 40 |
| Native context | — | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | no | yes, 256 experts |
| Quantizations published | 16 | 61 |
| Smallest quantization | 4.77 GiB | 8.77 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 7.17 GiB | 19.71 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Pixtral-12B-2409 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | 0.08 GiB | — |
| 8,192 | — | 0.16 GiB | — |
| 16,384 | — | 0.31 GiB | — |
| 32,768 | — | 0.63 GiB | — |
| 65,536 | — | 1.25 GiB | — |
| 131,072 | — | 2.50 GiB | — |