PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.10 and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B costs $0.20, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B reads up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text, against about 197 pages for Ling 3.0 Flash VL.

Only Ling 3.0 Flash VL offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B scores higher on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Ling 3.0 Flash VL on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Pick Ternary Bonsai 2 27B if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost or video input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.