Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B
Analysis Summary
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B comes from Baidu. It was released in August 2025. We place it in the Legacy tier, where it sits at #353 of 571 models overall.
Its 131K-token context window is larger than 60% of the models we list, suiting long documents, large codebases, and retrieval-heavy workloads. Crucially for business adoption, Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B combines tool use, function calling, and vision input in a single model, letting teams consolidate several use cases instead of stitching together multiple services.
At $0.140 input and $0.560 output per 1M tokens, Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B is aggressively priced for high-volume use which makes it easy to justify for cost-sensitive, high-throughput deployments. Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B is worth evaluating where Baiduās ecosystem and the modelās specific capabilities fit your workflow.
Editorial notes
Baidu ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B adds vision capability and tool use at low cost but carries no benchmark data; cannot be scored above the no-data cap without performance evidence.
Assessed May 31, 2026
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Performance Profile
How Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B compares
Its 131K-token context window is larger than 60% of the models we list. At $0.14 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 58% of comparable models.
About Baidu: 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..
Capabilities
How does Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B stack up?
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b
|
| Provider | baidu |
| Release Date | August 12, 2025 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Max Completion | 8,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.14 | $0.000140 |
| Output | $0.56 | $0.000560 |
External Resources
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.
