PrismML Ternary Bonsai 2 27B vs Tencent Hy3
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 1.3× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 262K tokens.
- Hy3 output costs $0.33 per 1M via Tencent, against the list price of $0.528.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is the newer model (released 2026-09-18).
| Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Hy3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | PrismML | Tencent |
| Released | 2026-09-18 | 2026-07-06 |
| Input / 1M | $0.075 | $0.132 |
| Output / 1M | $0.50 | $0.528 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.037 | $0.033 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.181 | $0.231 |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 33K | 128K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 5 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.50 | $0.33 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
$12.00 per month$0.40 per day
Hy3
$15.84 per month$0.53 per day
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B saves $3.84 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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