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/hrwestus2
g7e.2xlargeAWSRTX PRO Server 600096 GB$3.36/hrus-east-1
Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4AzureNVIDIA A10080 GB$3.67/hrwestus2
7 more instances can run ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Thinking
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
ERNIE 5 Thinking PreviewAvailable
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking131K$0.070$0.280Available
ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B131KAvailable
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B131K$0.420$1.25Available
ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Thinking131K$0.390$0.390Current
ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B Paddle123K$0.280$1.10Available
ERNIE ImageAvailable
ERNIE Image TurboAvailable

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