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PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B vs Sakana: Sakana Namazu

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B Sakana: Sakana Namazu
Vendorprism-mlsakana
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.07/M$0.95/M
Output Price$0.50/M$4.00/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,76865,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B costs $0.20 and Sakana Namazu costs $1.95, so Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is about 9.8 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.

Across the 10 tasks where they differ, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B was released in September 2026 and Sakana Namazu in August 2026.

Pick Ternary Bonsai 2 27B if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

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?

TaskPrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27BSakana: Sakana Namazu
SQL Generation 131 130
Code Completion 129 128
Code Documentation 126 125
Regex Writing 119 119
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 128
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 128
Long-Document Summarization 129 129
Short-Form Summarization 123 123
Blog Post Writing 119 118

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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