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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

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