ERNIE 4.5: API pricing, providers and specs
Textby Baidu
ERNIE 4.5 is a text model by Baidu. One provider serves it: AIHubMix, at $0.272 /1M.
A newer version is out: ERNIE 5.1 · released May 9, 2026
Lowest price$0.272/1Mat AIHubMix
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers1
Context160KMax output 64K
How ERNIE 4.5 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.272 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 79% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 160K-token context window is larger than 30% of them (median 262K), about 240 pages of text.
- 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
ERNIE 4.5 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 AIHubMix | $0.068/1M | $0.272/1M | — | 160K |
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Baidu
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 160K≈ 240 pages of text
- Max output
- 64K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- —
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
Alternatives to ERNIE 4.5
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERNIE 4.5this model | $0.272/1M | 160K | — | 1 |
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| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
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| Qwen3.8 Flash Next | $0.376/1M | 262K | 1628 | 5 |
 DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.17/1M | 1.05M | — | 26 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.294/1M | 1.05M | — | 26 |
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The lowest price for ERNIE 4.5 is $0.272 /1M, at AIHubMix.
ERNIE 4.5 reads up to 160K tokens per request and writes up to 64K.
We have not found ERNIE 4.5's weights published by its maker.
1 API providers serve ERNIE 4.5. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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