Crouton Alpha vs PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 9B

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Crouton Alpha costs $0 and Ternary Bonsai 2 9B costs $0.11, so Crouton Alpha is free for the same work.

Crouton Alpha 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 Crouton Alpha offers audio input and video input.

Across the 15 tasks where they differ, Crouton Alpha scores higher on 15 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Crouton Alpha was released in November 2026 and Ternary Bonsai 2 9B in October 2026.

Pick Crouton Alpha if you need lower cost, long documents, audio input, video input 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.