Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit vs MiniCPM5-1B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 29 August 2026.

prism-ml · A · Open weights
Params
2.6 B
Context
—
30d
1.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openbmb · B · Open weights
Params
1.1 B
Context
131,072
30d
236 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit MiniCPM5-1B
Parameters 2.6 B 1.1 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration LlamaForCausalLM
Context length — 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 1,012,597 236,013
Downloads all time 4.7 M 3.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-04 2026-05-21

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.1 M236 K
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit MiniCPM5-1B A overtook B on 14 Aug

VRAM side by side

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

MiniCPM5-1B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 5.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit · fp16 10.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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