PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B vs Mistral: Mistral Large 4

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ternary Bonsai 2 9B costs $0.11 and Mistral Large 4 costs $1.23, so Ternary Bonsai 2 9B is about 10.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Mistral Large 4 reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Ternary Bonsai 2 9B.

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

Pick Ternary Bonsai 2 9B if you need lower cost; pick Mistral Large 4 if you need long documents 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.