Fantasque smaller than other fonts at same font size?

A recent YouTube video about a non-free font called Comic Code prompted me to start comparing it to a number of different free and open source monospace fonts. Fantasque Sans Mono was actually the closest I've come to finding something close to Comic Code. It's very nice. But I noticed something odd about it.

I don't know much about font design, but I'm really curious whether it's a deliberate design choice to make Fantasque Sans Mono a bit smaller than other similar fonts. I'm using Font Manager from Flathub to compare a number of different fonts and I noticed that Fantasque is just... smaller. I was switching fonts in Visual Studio Code and noticed that I always wanted to zoom in or increase the editor font size whenever I tried Fantasque. The Font Manager app showed that this wasn't just my imagination. It really is relatively smaller at the same "size".

The screenshot below shows the font compared to four other fonts that share the same purpose of being good monospace "coding" fonts. You can see that there is an unusually large difference in length and height with Fantasque Sans Mono and the other fonts, even though they are all being set to the same "font size" for the comparison. All the other fonts are basically exactly the same length for the same string of characters, not even a single character width of difference. Fantasque has a bit less space between some of the letters, but it's also just physically smaller in general, leading to about a dozen character widths difference in length.

Is this something done on purpose? Or is it an issue with the settings used while generating the font that might be adjusted to match some sort of font size vs pixel dimensions standard better? Just curious.