PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B vs Thinking Machines: Inkling
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Thinking Machines: Inkling | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | prism-ml | thinkingmachines |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.07/M | $1.00/M |
| Output Price | $0.50/M | $4.05/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 524,288 |
| Max Output | 32,768 | 471,859 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | - |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B costs $0.20 and Inkling costs $2.01, so Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is about 10.1 times cheaper for the same work.
Inkling reads up to 524,288 tokens at once, roughly 786 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B.
Only Ternary Bonsai 2 27B offers structured output; only Inkling offers audio input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Unit Test Generation and others), Inkling on 7 (Code Review, Code Refactoring, Bug Fixing and others).
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B was released in September 2026 and Inkling in July 2026.
Pick Ternary Bonsai 2 27B if you need lower cost or structured output; pick Inkling if you need long documents or audio input.
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 | PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Thinking Machines: Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 131 | 125 |
| Code Review | 126 | 128 |
| Code Completion | 129 | 119 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 132 |
| Bug Fixing | 130 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 121 | 116 |
| Code Documentation | 126 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 117 | 116 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 118 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 128 | 121 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 124 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 111 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 116 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 128 | 123 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 128 | 123 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 129 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 115 |
| Blog Post Writing | 119 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →