ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B

Baidu chatvisionreasoningtool_use

API ID: baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b

Input Price
$0.14
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.56
/1M tokens

About ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B

A powerful multimodal Mixture-of-Experts chat model featuring 28B total parameters with 3B activated per token, delivering exceptional text and vision understanding through its innovative heterogeneous MoE structure with modality-isolated routing. Built with scaling-efficient infrastructure for high-throughput training and inference, the model leverages advanced post-training techniques including SFT, DPO, and UPO for optimized performance, while supporting an impressive 131K context length and RLVR alignment for superior cross-modal reasoning and generation capabilities.

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Price Ranking
#774 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
30k
Max Output
8k
Release Date
2025-08-12
Capabilities
chat vision reasoning tool_use
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)

๐Ÿ’ฐ Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.23
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$7.14
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$9.87
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each

Baidu Model Lineup

Compare all models from Baidu to find the best fit

Model Input Output Context Capabilities
ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Current $0.14 $0.56 30k chat vision reasoning tool_use
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking $0.07 $0.28 131k chat reasoning tool_use
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B $0.07 $0.28 120k chat reasoning tool_use
ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B $0.28 $1.10 123k chat tool_use
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B $0.42 $1.25 123k chat reasoning vision

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๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

Get started with ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B API

OpenAI-compatible SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)