Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B
Analysis Summary
Baidu's ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B adds image understanding to a text model with a 131K context window, tool use, and function calling. That combination suits workflows involving screenshots, documents, product imagery, and structured extraction, while the pricing remains below premium API tiers.
Design for Online could test it for image-to-text briefs, catalog enrichment, document triage, and routine marketing operations where outputs receive validation. No benchmark results are supplied for reasoning, coding, instruction following, or editorial consistency, so its suitability for high-stakes client copy and autonomous agents remains unverified. It is best positioned as a multimodal utility model for bounded tasks rather than a primary general-purpose system.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B combines vision, a 131K context window, and function calling with moderate API pricing, making it useful for multimodal extraction and routine content workflows; benchmark evidence is unavailable.
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DFO Verdict
ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B combines vision, a 131K context window, and function calling with moderate API pricing, making it useful for multimodal extraction and routine content workflows; benchmark evidence is unavailable.
How Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B compares
Its 131K-token context window is larger than 49% of the models we list. At $0.14 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 62% of comparable models.
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1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.14 | $0.000140 |
| Output | $0.56 | $0.000560 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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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..
Frequently asked questions about Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B
How much does Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B cost?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.56 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).
What can Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B do?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B is developed by Baidu and was released on August 12, 2025.