ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

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-

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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	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
BD Baidu	ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B	$0.070	$0.280	—	—	—	120,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 8B	$0.050	$0.400	20.2	64.3	45.2	32,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507	$0.051	$0.340	—	—	—	32,768	Try
Z Z-ai	GLM-4.7-Flash	$0.060	$0.400	—	—	45.2	202,752	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Small 3.2 24B	$0.060	$0.180	27.5	68.1	50.5	131,072	Try
GR Gryphe	MythoMax 13B	$0.060	$0.060	—	—	—	4,096	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 30B A3B	$0.060	$0.220	32.2	71.0	51.5	40,960	Try
MS Microsoft	Phi 4	$0.060	$0.140	23.1	71.4	57.5	16,384	Try
AM Amazon	Nova Lite 1.0	$0.060	$0.240	16.7	59.0	43.3	300,000	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Coder Next	$0.070	$0.300	—	—	73.7	262,144	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.

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

Providers

$0.070

Cheapest Input/M

$0.280

Cheapest Output/M

Novita

Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

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

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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