MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-23.
| MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash | PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | minimax | prism-ml |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 71.3 | - |
| Input Price | $0.15/M | $0.07/M |
| Output Price | $0.60/M | $0.50/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 524,288 | 32,768 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 70.5 | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B costs $0.20 and MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.30, so Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is about 1.5 times cheaper for the same work.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B.
Only MiniMax M3.1 Flash offers video input.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, MiniMax M3.1 Flash scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on 1 (JSON Extraction).
MiniMax M3.1 Flash was released in October 2026 and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B in September 2026.
Pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash if you need long documents, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Ternary Bonsai 2 27B 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 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash | PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 131 |
| Code Review | 145 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 147 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 149 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 132 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 138 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 126 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 128 | 117 |
| Frontend Component Design | 130 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 134 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 137 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 149 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 127 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →