ERNIE 4.5 — reviews, specs & pricing

Baidu's flagship multimodal MoE model family.

Summary

ERNIE 4.5 is a family of mixture-of-experts models (up to 424B parameters) supporting text and multimodal understanding, released with open weights for several variants. It's designed for both cloud API and open deployment. It emphasizes strong Chinese and English performance.

Sample use case

Used for enterprise chat, multimodal search, and Chinese-language applications. Suited for organizations needing strong bilingual (Chinese/English) capability.

Specifications

  • Provider: baidu
  • License: open
  • Parameters: 424B
  • Context: 128k tokens
  • Input price: $0.55/M tok
  • Output price: $2.2/M tok
  • Released: 2025-06-30

Pros

  • Open weights for several sizes
  • Strong Chinese-language performance
  • Multimodal support

Cons

  • Documentation largely in Chinese
  • Less benchmarked in Western evaluations
  • Large compute requirement for biggest variant

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Frequently asked questions

What is ERNIE 4.5?

ERNIE 4.5 is a family of mixture-of-experts models (up to 424B parameters) supporting text and multimodal understanding, released with open weights for several variants. It's designed for both cloud API and open deployment. It emphasizes strong Chinese and English performance.

How much does ERNIE 4.5 cost?

ERNIE 4.5 costs $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.2 per million output tokens.

Is ERNIE 4.5 open source?

ERNIE 4.5 is released under the open license.