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Baidu Ernie 4.5 21B A3B Thinking

by Helicone · family ernie · listed Mar 2025R

Reasoning model for deliberate analysis, multi-step problem solving, and tool use

Current rates USD per 1M tokens

Input$0.07
Output$0.28
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Against the market

Input price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Baidu Ernie 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingBaidu Ernie 4.5 21B A3B Thinking: $0.07 per 1M tokens$0.07DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.14 per 1M tokens$0.14Qwen3.7 PlusQwen3.7 Plus: $0.50 per 1M tokens$0.50Grok 4.3Grok 4.3: $1.25 per 1M tokens$1.25Gemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3.5 Flash: $1.50 per 1M tokens$1.50Mistral Medium (latest)Mistral Medium (latest): $1.50 per 1M tokens$1.50Claude Sonnet 5Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00GPT-5.5 ProGPT-5.5 Pro: $30.00 per 1M tokens$30.00
Output price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Baidu Ernie 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingBaidu Ernie 4.5 21B A3B Thinking: $0.28 per 1M tokens$0.28DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.28 per 1M tokens$0.28Grok 4.3Grok 4.3: $2.50 per 1M tokens$2.50Qwen3.7 PlusQwen3.7 Plus: $3.00 per 1M tokens$3.00Mistral Medium (latest)Mistral Medium (latest): $7.50 per 1M tokens$7.50Gemini 3.5 FlashGemini 3.5 Flash: $9.00 per 1M tokens$9.00Claude Sonnet 5Claude Sonnet 5: $10.00 per 1M tokens$10.00GPT-5.5 ProGPT-5.5 Pro: $180 per 1M tokens$180

On the record

Model id
ernie-4.5-21b-a3b-thinking
Context window
128K tokens
Max output
8K tokens
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Reasoning
yes
Tool calls
no
Open weights
no
Knowledge cutoff
Mar 2025
Released
2025-03-16
Last updated
2025-03-16
Provider docs
helicone.ai/models

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