ERNIE 4.5 Turbo
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- ERNIE 4.5
- Released
- 2025-04-24
- Context
- 128k
- Max output
- 12,288
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Baidu Qianfan
About
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo is Baidu's faster, more cost-efficient variant of ERNIE 4.5, launched April 24, 2025. It delivers ERNIE 4.5-level multimodal performance at 20% of the original cost ($0.12/1M input tokens vs $0.59). Strong at multimodal reasoning, with an average benchmark score of 77.68, surpassing GPT-4o (72.76). Text-only API variant; see ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL for vision capabilities. API model IDs: ernie-4.5-turbo-128k (primary, 128K context); ernie-4.5-turbo-32k (32K context).
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo is an open-source model in the ERNIE 4.5 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Baidu Qianfan, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.12 input and $0.47 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for ERNIE 4.5 Turbo yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
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Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baidu Qianfan | $0.120 | $0.470 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 1 route · Baidu Qianfan