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Each package is precompiled for different architectures (aarch, x84_64) for different targets (linux, darwin) and each NixOS version has a separate binary cache (unstable, 25.11, 24.11)
That alone means there are at least 12 different versions for one package of a specified version in the binary cache. Now add different versions to that and and you are well below 50MB per package.