ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Thinking is Baidu's language model with a 131K context window and up to 66K output tokens, starting at $0.39 / 1M input and $0.39 / 1M output. A reasoning-enhanced multimodal MoE model from Baidu built on ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B, delivering improved performance on complex visual reasoning tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDbaidu-ernie-vl-4-5-28b-a3b-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorBaiduBaidu
Providers
Context Window131K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesImage
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters28B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text·
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling✓
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Novita
novita/baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking
$0.39$0.39

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Thinking, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 67 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

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Standard_NP20sAzure2× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)128 GB$3.30/hr
g7e.2xlargeAWSRTX PRO Server 600096 GB$3.36/hr
Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4AzureNVIDIA A10080 GB$3.67/hr
7 more instances can run ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Thinking
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
ERNIE 5 Thinking Preview————Available
ERNIE 5.1—119K$0.563$2.54Available
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking131K$0.070$0.280Available
ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B131K——Available
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B123K$0.420$1.25Deprecated
ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Thinking—131K$0.390$0.390Current
ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B Paddle—123K$0.280$1.10Available
ERNIE Image————Available
ERNIE Image Turbo————Available

Model IDs

baidu-ernie-vl-4-5-28b-a3b-thinking
baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking
novita/baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking