# Qwen3.8 Max vs Ternary Bonsai 2 27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.8 Max and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-8-max-vs-ternary-bonsai-2-27b
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ternary Bonsai 2 27B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.8 Max leads overall 73.17 to 50.78.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 90.5 for Qwen3.8 Max and 71 for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 86.6% and 52.8%.
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.8 Max also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.8 Max | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Prism ML |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | 73.17 | 50.78 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 60 | 21 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.3 (Supported · #9/154)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 49.9 (Estimated · #59/154)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 86.6% | 52.8% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| CoWorkBench | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | 52.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 27.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 81.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 56.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 86.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 19.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | 66.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 67.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v3 | Coming soon | 74.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 60.7 (Supported · #20/154)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 49.9 (Estimated · #64/154)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 86.6% | 52.8% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| SWE-bench Pro | 67.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 56.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 55.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | 41.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 15.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 90.1% | Coming soon |
| BigCodeBench | Coming soon | 58.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87.4 (#5/48)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 95.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | 97.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 82.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 24.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | 49.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 84.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | 69.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 88.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 93.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | 74.2% | 56.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| CC-OCR | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 88.0% | 80.1% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| ERQA | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 75.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 63.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 90.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 88.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 82.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LVBench | 81.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv (overall) | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| A-OKVQA | Coming soon | 86.8% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.6 | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 86.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 73.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 69.1 (Supported · #17/184)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #78/184)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 92.6% | 85.8% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| GPQA-D | 92.6% | 85.8% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| HLE | 43.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 90.5 (#16/124)
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 71 (#64/124)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.8% | 74% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 76.8 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 98.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.8 Max or Ternary Bonsai 2 27B?

Qwen3.8 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.8 Max and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 90.5 for Qwen3.8 Max and 71 for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 60 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Ternary Bonsai 2 27B cover on BenchLM?

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B currently has 21 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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