Nex AGI Nex-N2.5-Mini vs PrismML Ternary Bonsai 2 9B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Nex-N2.5-Mini is 2.1× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 262K tokens.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 9B's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 99.60% vs 98.8%.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 9B is the newer model (released 2026-10-16).
| Nex-N2.5-Mini | Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Nex AGI | PrismML |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2026-10-16 |
| Input / 1M | $0.025 | $0.08 |
| Output / 1M | $0.10 | $0.13 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.0025 | $0.04 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.044 | $0.092 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 236K | 66K |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.10 | $0.13 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 98.8% | 99.60% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Nex-N2.5-Mini
$3.00 per month$0.10 per day
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B
$6.75 per month$0.23 per day
Nex-N2.5-Mini saves $3.75 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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