Is Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash or gemma-3-1b-it smaller?

Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash is smaller at Q4_K_M: 0.27 GiB against 0.75 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-3-1b-it — its KV cache at 32K context is 3.4x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash vs gemma-3-1b-it

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash is the smaller download — 286,754,016 bytes against 806,058,240. At long context the gap widens: gemma-3-1b-it's KV cache at 32K is 3.4× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash	gemma-3-1b-it
Parameters	474M	1000M
Architecture	dflash	gemma3
Layers	8	26
Native context	262,144	32,768
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	7	28
Smallest quantization	0.25 GiB	0.52 GiB
Q4_K_M	0.27 GiB	0.75 GiB
Licence	—	gemma

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash	gemma-3-1b-it	Ratio
4,096	0.06 GiB	0.04 GiB	1.68×
8,192	0.13 GiB	0.05 GiB	2.37×
16,384	0.25 GiB	0.08 GiB	2.98×
32,768	0.50 GiB	0.15 GiB	3.41×
65,536	1.00 GiB	0.27 GiB	3.68×
131,072	2.00 GiB	0.52 GiB	3.84×