PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B
prism-ml/ternary-bonsai-2-9b
Model weightsTernary Bonsai 2 9B is PrismML’s compact, open-weight language model for conversational AI, reasoning, and tool use. Built on Qwen3.5, it uses ternary weights packed into 2 bits for efficient inference. It accepts text and image input. Its 262K-token context window supports long conversations and document-heavy workflows, with up to 64K output tokens per response.
Providers
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request without routing.
| $0.08 | $0.13 | $0.04 | 0.80s | 70 tok/s |
Input $0.08 / Output $0.1370 tok/s99.20% uptime
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B — Price history
| $0.0751 | $0.130 | 11.9% | 100.0% |
- Effective in $0.0751 / Effective out $0.130Token share100.0%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
P50, best across providers
P50, best provider
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Availability over the last 3 days
Last 72 hoursAvailability over the last 24 hours
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs
Frequently asked questions
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B is PrismML’s compact, open-weight language model for conversational AI, reasoning, and tool use. Built on Qwen3.5, it uses ternary weights packed into 2 bits for efficient inference. It accepts text and image input. Its 262K-token context window supports long conversations and document-heavy workflows, with up to 64K output tokens per response.
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B costs $0.08/M input tokens and $0.13/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.04/M tokens.
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 65,536 completion tokens.
Yes. Ternary Bonsai 2 9B accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B accepts text and images as input and returns text.
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: Darkbloom.
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is another text model from PrismML.
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B was released on October 16, 2026.