Why use ERNIE 4.5 Turbo on Baidu Qianfan?
Baidu Qianfan offers ERNIE 4.5 Turbo with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.12/1M input tokens. Baidu Qianfan is Baidu Intelligent Cloud's foundation model and Agent development platform, providing hosted API access to ERNIE and Qianfan models for text generation, reasoning, multimodal understanding, embeddings, and agent workflows.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.12 |
| Output tokens | $0.47 |
Capabilities
About ERNIE 4.5 Turbo
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).
FAQ
What does ERNIE 4.5 Turbo cost on Baidu Qianfan?
On Baidu Qianfan, ERNIE 4.5 Turbo costs $0.12 per 1M input tokens and $0.47 per 1M output tokens.
What is the context window for ERNIE 4.5 Turbo on Baidu Qianfan?
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo supports a 128,000 token context window on Baidu Qianfan.
What API model ID do I use for ERNIE 4.5 Turbo on Baidu Qianfan?
Use the model ID ernie-4.5-turbo-128k when calling Baidu Qianfan's API.
Who created ERNIE 4.5 Turbo?
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo was created by Baidu AI as part of the ERNIE 4.5 model family.
Is ERNIE 4.5 Turbo open source?
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.