Is Qwable-9B-Claude-Fable-5 or gemma-4-E2B-it smaller?

gemma-4-E2B-it is smaller at Q4_K_M: 2.89 GiB against 5.24 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-4-E2B-it — its KV cache at 32K context is 4.1x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwable-9B-Claude-Fable-5 vs gemma-4-E2B-it

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-E2B-it is the smaller download — 3,106,738,272 bytes against 5,629,108,960. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-E2B-it's KV cache at 32K is 4.1× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Qwable-9B-Claude-Fable-5	gemma-4-E2B-it
Parameters	9.4B	5.1B
Architecture	qwen35	gemma4
Layers	32	35
Native context	262,144	131,072
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	41	54
Smallest quantization	2.55 GiB	2.13 GiB
Q4_K_M	5.24 GiB	2.89 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwable-9B-Claude-Fable-5	gemma-4-E2B-it	Ratio
4,096	0.13 GiB	0.05 GiB	2.29×
8,192	0.25 GiB	0.08 GiB	3.05×
16,384	0.50 GiB	0.14 GiB	3.66×
32,768	1.00 GiB	0.25 GiB	4.06×
65,536	2.00 GiB	0.46 GiB	4.30×
131,072	4.00 GiB	0.90 GiB	4.43×