PrismML Ternary Bonsai 2 27B vs Qwen3 30B A3B
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
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B accepts longer prompts: 262K vs 41K tokens.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is the newer model (released 2026-09-18).
| Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Qwen3 30B A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | PrismML | Qwen |
| Released | 2026-09-18 | 2025-04-28 |
| Input / 1M | $0.075 | $0.12 |
| Output / 1M | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.037 | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.181 | $0.215 |
| Context | 262K | 41K |
| Max output | 33K | 16K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
$12.00 per month$0.40 per day
Qwen3 30B A3B
$14.70 per month$0.49 per day
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B saves $2.70 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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