# Ternary Bonsai 2 27B vs ZAYA1-VL-8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ternary Bonsai 2 27B and ZAYA1-VL-8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ternary-bonsai-2-27b-vs-zaya1-vl-8b
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B and ZAYA1-VL-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 2 27B has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | ZAYA1-VL-8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Prism ML | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 50.78 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 21 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 49.9 (Estimated · #59/154)
- ZAYA1-VL-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | ZAYA1-VL-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ²-bench results | 80.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v3 | 74.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 49.9 (Estimated · #64/154)
- ZAYA1-VL-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | ZAYA1-VL-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 90.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BigCodeBench | 58.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-VL-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | ZAYA1-VL-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv (overall) | 80.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| A-OKVQA | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.6 | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 80.1% | 65.0% | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B |
| OCRBench V2 | 56.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 87.5% | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 46.0% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 88.1% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 73.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- ZAYA1-VL-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #78/184)
- ZAYA1-VL-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | ZAYA1-VL-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Redux | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 71 (#64/124)
- ZAYA1-VL-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | ZAYA1-VL-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ternary Bonsai 2 27B public-lane score: 76.8 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- ZAYA1-VL-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | ZAYA1-VL-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GSM8K | 96.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 98.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Ternary Bonsai 2 27B and ZAYA1-VL-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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