Qwen3-8B vs Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
prism-ml · B · Open weights
Params
27.0 B
Context
—
30d
2.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 8.2 B 27.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM —
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 8,298,786 2,484,375
Downloads all time 133.3 M 5.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-09-16
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.075
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.58
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.038
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 32,768
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf $0.58

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

16.6 M406 K
Qwen3-8B Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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