Is Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct or Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP smaller?

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct is smaller at Q4_K_M: 18.40 GiB against 34.04 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP — its KV cache at 32K context is 4.0x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct vs Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct is the smaller download — 19,762,150,432 bytes against 36,545,830,912. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP's KV cache at 32K is 4.0× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct	Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP
Parameters	33.4B	27.8B
Architecture	qwen3vl	qwen35
Layers	64	64
Native context	262,144	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	48	34
Smallest quantization	7.21 GiB	10.12 GiB
Q4_K_M	18.40 GiB	34.04 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct	Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP	Ratio
4,096	1.00 GiB	0.25 GiB	4.00×
8,192	2.00 GiB	0.50 GiB	4.00×
16,384	4.00 GiB	1.00 GiB	4.00×
32,768	8.00 GiB	2.00 GiB	4.00×
65,536	16.00 GiB	4.00 GiB	4.00×
131,072	32.00 GiB	8.00 GiB	4.00×