Ternary Bonsai 2 27B

Released
2026-09-17
Last refreshed
2026-10-08
Status
Researched 24d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool useMultimodalAgents
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Specifications
Family
Bonsai
Released
2026-09-17
Context
256K
Parameters
27.4B
Specialization
on-device
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedPermitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

PrismML (Prism ML, Inc.) builds ultra-dense 1-bit and ternary Bonsai models for on-device and efficient datacenter infer

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About

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B (also branded Bonsai 2 27B) is PrismML's flagship ternary open-weight multimodal model, announced 2026-09-17. Based on Qwen3.8 27B. PrismML reports ~9× smaller on-disk size than the full-precision counterpart and 98.2% of aggregate benchmark performance (overall 83.9 vs Qwen3.8 27B 85.4 on their thinking-mode suite). Language footprint ~5.9 GB (GGUF PTQ1_0 ~5.93–5.95 GB; PQ2_0 ~7.2 GB; MLX companion larger). Gains called out vs prior Bonsai 27B: agentic coding, multimodal reasoning, long-horizon tool use. Specs (docs/HF card): 27.36B params; 262K context; text+image in / text out; optional vision mmproj; Apache 2.0; available on Hugging Face (prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf + mlx-2bit).

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Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool use

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

Benchmark scores(10)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
96.7GSM8K (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
98.8MATH-500 (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
95.0AIME25 (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
95.8AIME26 (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
95.1HumanEval+ (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
83.1MBPP+ (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
90.1LiveCodeBench (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
91.3IFEval (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
74.9BFCL v3 (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—
75.5MMMU-Pro (thinking mode)Observed 2026-10-13—

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API versions

ternary-bonsai-2-27bbonsai-2-27b