PrismML: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B vs Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B costs $0.20 and GLM 5.3 FlashX costs $0.68, so Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is about 3.4 times cheaper for the same work.

GLM 5.3 FlashX reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B.

Only GLM 5.3 FlashX offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B scores higher on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), GLM 5.3 FlashX on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Ternary Bonsai 2 27B if you need lower cost; pick GLM 5.3 FlashX if you need long documents, 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.