Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Ternary Bonsai 2 27B

Prices checked

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite takes 4 of 5 rounds against Ternary Bonsai 2 27B. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $0.09 per million tokens against $0.18.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

1M context · tool calling · reads images

$0.09/M tokens

Cheapest price, at Kilo Gateway · 4.2¢ per 1,000 pages

Prism ML

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B

262k context · tool calling · reads images

$0.18/M tokens

OpenRouter's own price · 7.5¢ per 1,000 pages

Maker's price in (lower wins)

$0.10/M

$0.07/M

Maker's price out (lower wins)

$0.40/M

$0.50/M

Cheapest price (lower wins)

$0.09/M at Kilo Gateway

none below the maker

Maker's price, blended (lower wins)

$0.18/M

$0.18/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

4.2¢

7.5¢

Context

1M tokens

262k tokens

Open weights

no

no

Tool calling

yes

yes

Structured output

yes

yes

Reads images

yes

yes

Reasoning

yes

yes

Released

17 Jun 2025

18 Sept 2026

Providers selling it

28

6

Price we measure against

the maker's own

OpenRouter

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

not published

no provider to check

Providers selling both · 5

  • Kilo Gateway$0.09 / $0.18
  • LLMTR$0.10 / $0.18
  • Nous Portal$0.17 / $0.18
  • OpenRouter$0.17 / $0.18
  • NanoGPT$0.26 / $0.18

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, then Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, per million tokens.

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Ternary Bonsai 2 27B?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, at $0.09 per million tokens against $0.18 for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: $0.09 at Kilo Gateway. Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $0.18 is the number to beat.
Can I buy both from one provider?
Yes. 5 providers sell both: Kilo Gateway, LLMTR, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, NanoGPT. The cheapest of them for the two together is Kilo Gateway.
Which holds more context?
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, at 1M tokens against 262k.

Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.

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