Meta: Muse Ember vs PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ternary Bonsai 2 9B costs $0.11 and Muse Ember costs $0.23, so Ternary Bonsai 2 9B is about 2.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Muse Ember 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 Muse Ember offers audio input and video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Muse Ember scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Ternary Bonsai 2 9B on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling).

Muse Ember was released in November 2026 and Ternary Bonsai 2 9B in October 2026.

Pick Muse Ember 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.