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  5. Nemotron 3 UltravsTernary Bonsai 2 27B
Updated Sep 2026

Nemotron 3 UltravsTernary Bonsai 2 27B

Nemotron 3 Ultra is cheaper than Ternary Bonsai 2 27B at $0/M vs $0.075/M input tokens.

Nemotron 3 Ultra and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B compared across 9 shared prompts
SpecNemotron 3 UltraTernary Bonsai 2 27B
Input priceFree$0.075/M tokens
Output priceFree$0.5/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens262K tokens
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)Yes (1 provider)No
ReleasedJun 2026Sep 2026
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Opening lines from 4 of the 9 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

Nemotron 3 Ultra651 words
Claim: "MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it." (Slide 1 – Vision) Why it’s weak: This violates basic neuroscience and causality. Neural activity is the physical correlate of "thinking it."
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Ternary Bonsai 2 27B1,109 words
The 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch "FDA Clearance (40% of $15M)" — Slide 7 The claim: They're allocating $6M (40% of the entire raise) toward "FDA clearance" for a consumer EEG headband that decodes thoughts into text for everyday smartphone use.
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Nemotron 3 Ultra497 words
Dish Name: Golden Hour Chickpea Fritters Crispy, savory, and deeply golden—these come together in minutes using the "liquid gold" from the can (aquafaba) as the secret binder. No eggs, no fresh produce, pure pantry magic.
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Ternary Bonsai 2 27B358 words
🍫 Velvet Hour Skillet Cakes A one-pan, one-pan-pour, one-lick-the-spoon kind of dessert. Fluffy, deeply chocolate, and done before your coffee goes cold. Serves: 2–3 Prep: 10 min Cook: 12–15 min Total: ~25 min The 7 Ingredients # Ingredient Amount 1 All-purpose flour ¾ cup 2 Granulated sugar ⅓ cup 3 Unsweetened cocoa…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Nemotron 3 Ultra624 words
The "Foundations First" 1-Month Plan Goal: Build sustainable micro-habits in Nutrition, Movement, and Recovery without overwhelm. Focus on consistency > intensity. The 3 Pillars & Daily "Minimum Viable Habits" (MVH) Do these every single day. If you miss one, resume immediately—no guilt.
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Ternary Bonsai 2 27B729 words
1-Month Foundation Plan: Health & Longevity How to Use This Plan Pick one area per week's focus while maintaining the other two at a baseline level. The point is consistency over intensity. You're building a habit identity, not a transformation.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Nemotron 3 Ultra1,049 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM as a massively parallel, differentiable database where the "schema" is learned rather than designed. The transformer architecture is essentially a stack of attention blocks that route information across token positions — each block is a small, fixed computation…
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Ternary Bonsai 2 27B1,636 words
For the Distributed-Systems Engineer Think of the model as a single, enormous state object—roughly 150 billion floating-point parameters—that has been trained offline over months on a cluster of thousands of GPUs.
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Our Verdict
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
Ternary Bonsai 2 27BRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Nemotron 3 Ultra has the edge: bigger model tier, bigger context window.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Nemotron 3 Ultra
Input
$0.000
Output
$0.000
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
Input
$0.07
Output
$0.50
Where to run it

2 hosts

Nemotron 3 Ultra1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
NVIDIA$0 in·$0 out·1M·99.5% up
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
DDarkbloomint4$0.07 in·$0.50 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 23 Sep 2026.

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Nemotron 3 Ultra is developed by NVIDIA while Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is developed by PrismML. Nemotron 3 Ultra has a 1.0M token context window vs Ternary Bonsai 2 27B's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 9 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Nemotron 3 Ultra and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 9 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Nemotron 3 Ultra costs $0/M input tokens and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B costs $0.075/M input tokens. Nemotron 3 Ultra is $0.07/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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