Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B
Analysis Summary
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B sits in the Legacy tier on our leaderboard, ranked #377 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.140 input and $0.560 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.
Editorial notes
Baidu ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B adds vision to a small MoE architecture with no benchmark data, making capability assessment impossible; the 30K context window is a further constraint.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b
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| 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 |
