# o3-mini vs Ternary Bonsai 8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for o3-mini and Ternary Bonsai 8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/o3-mini-vs-ternary-bonsai-8b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: o3-mini and Ternary Bonsai 8B share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Ternary Bonsai 8B has the lower published output-token price.
- o3-mini has the larger published context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | o3-mini | Ternary Bonsai 8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Prism ML |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 64K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 40.02 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 2 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.10 / $4.40 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ternary Bonsai 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Ternary Bonsai 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 49.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ternary Bonsai 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Ternary Bonsai 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MuSR | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: 37.7 (Supported · #122/181)
- Ternary Bonsai 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Ternary Bonsai 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 86.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ternary Bonsai 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Ternary Bonsai 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | 81.8% | o3-mini |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- o3-mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ternary Bonsai 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | o3-mini | Ternary Bonsai 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 87.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between o3-mini and Ternary Bonsai 8B?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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- [o3-mini vs o3](/compare/o3-vs-o3-mini)
- [Ternary Bonsai 8B vs o3](/compare/o3-vs-ternary-bonsai-8b)

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