ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B API Pricing 2026

Overview

ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B was released on August 12, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.070 per million input tokens and $0.280 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 120K tokens. API access is available through Baidu.

Context Window

120K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.070

Output$0.280

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output-

TTFT-

median latency

Capabilities

Tools

Pricing Comparison

Compare ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Context	Actions
BD Baidu	ernie-4.5-21b-a3b	$0.070	$0.280	120,000	Try
QW Qwen	qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507	$0.051	$0.340	32,768	Try
NV Nvidia	nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b	$0.060	$0.240	262,144	Try
MI Mistral AI	mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct	$0.060	$0.180	131,072	Try
DS Deepseek	deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b	$0.060	$0.090	128,000	Try
MI Mistral AI	devstral-small-2505	$0.060	$0.120	128,000	Try
QW Qwen	qwen3-30b-a3b	$0.060	$0.220	40,960	Try
MS Microsoft	phi-4	$0.060	$0.140	16,384	Try
AM Amazon	nova-lite-v1	$0.060	$0.240	300,000	Try
GR Gryphe	mythomax-l2-13b	$0.060	$0.060	4,096	Try
BD Baidu	ernie-4.5-21b-a3b-thinking	$0.070	$0.280	131,072	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

2

Providers

$0.070

Cheapest Input/M

$0.280

Cheapest Output/M

OpenRouter

Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenRouter Best Price	$0.070	$0.280	-
N Novita Best Price	$0.070	$0.280	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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