Google: Gemini 4 Carbon vs PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-12.
| Google: Gemini 4 Carbon | PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | prism-ml | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 98.9 | - |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.08/M |
| Output Price | $10.00/M | $0.13/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 99.0 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ternary Bonsai 2 9B costs $0.11 and Gemini 4 Carbon costs $4.50, so Ternary Bonsai 2 9B is about 40.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini 4 Carbon reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Ternary Bonsai 2 9B.
Only Gemini 4 Carbon offers audio input and video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Gemini 4 Carbon scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Ternary Bonsai 2 9B on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Gemini 4 Carbon was released in November 2026 and Ternary Bonsai 2 9B in October 2026.
Pick Gemini 4 Carbon if you need long documents, audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Ternary Bonsai 2 9B if you need lower cost.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Google: Gemini 4 Carbon | PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 144 | 131 |
| Code Review | 150 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 151 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 154 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 135 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 138 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 127 | 120 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 131 | 117 |
| Frontend Component Design | 133 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 138 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 141 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 118 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 135 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 135 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 152 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 118 | 124 |
| Blog Post Writing | 132 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →