Model comparison
Qwen3-Coder-Next-Opus-4.6-Reasoning-Distilled vs Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
At Q4_K_M, Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct is the smaller download — 2,019,377,440 bytes against 48,489,047,936. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3-Coder-Next-Opus-4.6-Reasoning-Distilled's KV cache at 32K is 4.7× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3-Coder-Next-Opus-4.6-Reasoning-Distilled | Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | — | 3.2B |
| Architecture | qwen3next | llama |
| Layers | 48 | 28 |
| Native context | 262,144 | 131,072 |
| Mixture of experts | yes, 512 experts | no |
| Quantizations published | 21 | 39 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.38 GiB | 0.85 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 45.16 GiB | 1.88 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3-Coder-Next-Opus-4.6-Reasoning-Distilled | Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.09 GiB | 0.44 GiB | 4.66× |
| 8,192 | 0.19 GiB | 0.88 GiB | 4.66× |
| 16,384 | 0.38 GiB | 1.75 GiB | 4.67× |
| 32,768 | 0.75 GiB | 3.50 GiB | 4.67× |
| 65,536 | 1.50 GiB | 7.00 GiB | 4.67× |
| 131,072 | 3.00 GiB | 14.00 GiB | 4.67× |