Ternary Bonsai 2 9B vs Claude Haiku 5.5
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B took 7 min 4 s and $0.004 at list price, Claude Haiku 5.5 took 4 min 43 s and $0.035 at list price. Ternary Bonsai 2 9B took 1.5× as long, and Claude Haiku 5.5 cost 7.9× as much.
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B
PrismML · $0.13/M out
Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic · $0.50/M out · 1,071 HN pts
Pelican
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Watch
Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.
Landing
Build the landing page for Lumen Cycles, a Copenhagen workshop that builds custom cargo bikes to order. Make it look like a real brand you would trust with 4,000 euros.
Breakout
Make a Breakout game I can play right now with the keyboard or the mouse. Give it several levels, a score and some juice.
Logo
Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.
About
Write the opening of the About us page for Patchbay, a three-person studio in Rotterdam that repairs vintage synthesizers. About 150 words.
Welcome to Patchbay. A dedicated three-person studio in Rotterdam, where analog warmth meets modern precision. Our workshop is a sanctuary for vintage synthesizers, circuit boards, and forgotten sounds. We operate on the belief that vintage gear deserves respect and careful handling. Every unit we restore is given a new life, preserving its unique character while ensuring it functions reliably. We work meticulously on instruments that shaped electronic music history. This isn't just repair; it is resurrection. Our artisans take the time to solder every connection and clean every capacitor, understanding that imperfections hold stories worth keeping. We aim to keep the legacy of analog synthesis alive. Whether you need a fix or advice on your collection's condition, we support the analog revival. Trust in our expertise to get your dreams humming again. In a digital world, we choose to sound the truth. We believe in the tangible sound of history.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam, and we spend our days inside vintage synthesizers. We are repair technicians first: we open the cases, replace the leaking capacitors, re-tune the oscillators that have drifted out of pitch, and bring back the filters that went silent decades ago. Our bench is crowded with service manuals, spare chips, and a soldering station that has seen more Moog panels than we can count. We started the studio because we kept meeting musicians whose favourite instruments sat unused in cupboards, not because they were broken beyond saving but because nobody nearby knew how to fix them. We still believe most of these machines can be made to sing again, and we would rather spend an afternoon finding the one bad resistor than see another good synth end up in a skip.
Specs and numbers
| Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | PrismML | Anthropic |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 16 Oct 2026 | 7 Oct 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.08 | $0.10 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.13 | $0.50 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | 1,071 |
| Time for the six prompts | 7 min 4 s | 4 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.004 | $0.035 |
Ternary Bonsai 2 9B was cheaper: $0.031 less at list price, and less on 5 of the 6 prompts. Claude Haiku 5.5 was faster: 2 min 20 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, Ternary Bonsai 2 9B's Breakout game stopped painting; Claude Haiku 5.5's plays.





