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  5. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructvsTernary Bonsai 2 27B
Updated Sep 2026

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructvsTernary Bonsai 2 27B

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is cheaper than Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct at $0.075/M vs $0.15/M input tokens.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B compared across 9 shared prompts
SpecQwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructTernary Bonsai 2 27B
Input price$0.15/M tokens$0.075/M tokens
Output price$1.5/M tokens$0.5/M tokens
Context window66K tokens262K tokens
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2025Sep 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 4 of the 9 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

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…

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct269 words
Recipe Name: Golden Honey-Sesame Toast Bites A crunchy, sweet-savory snack that’s warm, glossy, and addictive—perfect for breakfast, dessert, or a quick treat. Ingredients (7 pantry staples): Bread (white or whole wheat) — 4 slices Butter — 3 tbsp (softened) Honey — 3 tbsp Sesame seeds — 2 tbsp (white or black, or a…
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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…

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct523 words
Absolutely! Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan focused on three foundational pillars of health and longevity: Diet, Movement, and Sleep. Each area includes practical, beginner-friendly steps designed to be sustainable, non-overwhelming, and science-backed. 🌱 1-Month Health & Longevity Plan: 3 Key Areas 1.
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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…

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct917 words
1. To the Experienced Software Engineer You’re right to be skeptical. “Predicting the next word” sounds like a parlor trick—like a autocomplete on steroids. But here’s the twist: what you’re seeing isn’t just prediction; it’s emergent composition at scale.
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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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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.…

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct1,048 words
Here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, with detailed analysis of why they’re problematic and how to strengthen them: 1. weakest claim: “Our proprietary EEG headband uses advanced ML to decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy.”
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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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Our Verdict
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B costs 3.0x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.15
Output
$1.50
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
Input
$0.07
2.0× cheaper
Output
$0.50
3.0× cheaper

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is cheaper on both: 2.0× input, 3.0× output.

Where to run it

6 hosts, cheapest first

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDeepInfrafp8$0.09 in·$1.10 out·262k·99.8% upAlibaba Cloud$0.10 in·$0.78 out·131k·100% upPParasailfp8$0.10 in·$1.10 out·262k·100% upGoogle Vertex AI$0.15 in·$1.20 out·262k·100% upNNovitabf16$0.15 in·$1.50 out·131k·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 22 Sep 2026.

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Common questions

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is developed by Qwen while Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is developed by PrismML. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct has a 66K 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. Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct 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.

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct costs $0.15/M input tokens and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B costs $0.075/M input tokens. Ternary Bonsai 2 27B 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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