Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B
BAIDU Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1150Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context120,000Tokens
API Cost / 1M$0.35Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
A sophisticated text-based Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model featuring 21B total parameters with 3B activated per token, delivering exceptional multimodal understanding and generation through heterogeneous MoE structures and modality-isolated routing. Supporting an extensive 131K token context length, the model achieves efficient inference via multi-expert parallel collaboration and quantization, while advanced post-training techniques including SFT, DPO, and UPO ensure optimized performance across diverse applications with specialized routing and balancing losses for superior task handling.
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.07 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$0.28 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026
Evaluate Competitors
VS Engine MatchupBaidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B vs ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-LiteVS Engine MatchupBaidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BVS Engine MatchupBaidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-FlashVS Engine MatchupBaidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B vs MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 (free)VS Engine MatchupBaidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B vs MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5VS Engine MatchupBaidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B vs StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash (free)