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Ternary Bonsai 2 27B
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by Prism Ml
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALCODING HELPFAST RESPONSES
RANKED #19 OF 318 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #24 OF 494 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.8 · 12,661 VOICES ·
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A fast, open-weights text model designed to assist with coding and daily tasks.
HAPPY8.8
81 mentions
SAD6.2
57 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 12,672 voices in this window
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Ternary Bonsai 2 27B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
27B parameters, a PTQ1_0 ternary GGUF is about 5.95 GB (or 8.6 GB for MLX with vision)
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$220 USEDPTQ1_0 1.75-bit pack, ~34 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$750 NEWPQ2_0 2.13-bit pack, ~55 tok/s, 64k context
- FULL POWER
Apple MacBook Pro M3 Max 64GB
64 GB UNIFIED RAM
~$2,800 USEDMLX 2-bit pack with full vision tower, ~47 tok/s, 262k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN TERNARY BONSAI 2 27B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Ternary Bonsai 2 27B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB | FULL POWERApple MacBook Pro M3 Max 64GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~15 S★★★★★ | ~9 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~44 S★★★★★ | ~27 S★★★★★ | ~32 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~3.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.8 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~12 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~7.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.5 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.3 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users love Ternary Bonsai 2 27B for its quick responses and helpful coding support. However, many complain about frequent errors, made-up facts, and an annoying tendency to lecture or refuse requests.
8445 POSTS · 4216 COMMENTS · GITHUB · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · LEMMY · DEV.TO · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (6 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT MORE
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (26 mentions)
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (6 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (4 mentions)
- People find it expensive (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 26 thumbs down
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
6 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
3 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- SpeedMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- PriceA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
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