Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit vs Qwen2.5-1.5B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 4 September 2026.

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

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit Qwen2.5-1.5B
Parameters 2.6 B 1.5 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length — 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 1,012,597 541,078
Downloads all time 4.7 M 15.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-04 2024-09-15

Download trend

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

2.1 M523 K
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit Qwen2.5-1.5B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-1.5B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 7.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit · fp16 10.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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