Is Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored or Qwen3.6-27B smaller?

Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored is smaller at Q4_K_M: 7.33 GiB against 15.41 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3.6-27B — its KV cache at 32K context is 12.5x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored vs Qwen3.6-27B

At Q4_K_M, Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored is the smaller download — 7,865,956,256 bytes against 16,547,397,888. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-27B's KV cache at 32K is 12.5× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored	Qwen3.6-27B
Parameters	13.0B	27.8B
Architecture	llama	qwen35
Layers	40	64
Native context	2,048	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	25	40
Smallest quantization	4.52 GiB	8.74 GiB
Q4_K_M	7.33 GiB	15.41 GiB
Licence	other	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensored	Qwen3.6-27B	Ratio
4,096	3.13 GiB	0.25 GiB	12.49×
8,192	6.25 GiB	0.50 GiB	12.50×
16,384	12.50 GiB	1.00 GiB	12.50×
32,768	25.00 GiB	2.00 GiB	12.50×
65,536	50.00 GiB	4.00 GiB	12.50×
131,072	100.00 GiB	8.00 GiB	12.50×