Poolside Laguna XS 2.1 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
- Laguna XS 2.1 is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 262K tokens.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 9B is the newer model (released 2026-10-16).
| Laguna XS 2.1 | Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Poolside | PrismML |
| Released | 2026-07-02 | 2026-10-16 |
| Input / 1M | $0.06 | $0.08 |
| Output / 1M | $0.12 | $0.13 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.03 | $0.04 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.075 | $0.092 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 33K | 66K |
| Accepts | text | text, image |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.12 | $0.13 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.60% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Laguna XS 2.1
$5.40 per month$0.18 per day
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B
$6.75 per month$0.23 per day
Laguna XS 2.1 saves $1.35 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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