MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash 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 MiniMax M3.1 Flash costs $0.30, so Ternary Bonsai 2 9B is about 2.7 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 9B.

Only MiniMax M3.1 Flash offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, MiniMax M3.1 Flash scores higher on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Ternary Bonsai 2 9B on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash if you need long documents, 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.