How much does ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B cost per million tokens?

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B costs $0.42 per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B ?

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B accepts up to 123,000 tokens of context and returns up to 16,000 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B ?

About $1.05, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B ?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.8 Omni Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Baidu API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Baidu sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Baidu · live price

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B API pricing

ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B is a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 series, featuring 424B total parameters with 47B active per token. It is trained jointly on text and image data...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)Reasoningimage inputRetiring 2026-10-08

Input: $0.42; per 1M tokens
Output: $1.25; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 123K; 16K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Baidu's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released June 30, 2025. Model id baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-424b-a47b.

What ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$1.05

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$3.99

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$1.51

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

Novita$0.42 in · $1.25 out · 123K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h

Where to buy Baidu credits for less

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

Disclosure: this site is run by the team behind smaaart, one of the options compared. Tables are ranked by price only, from live quotes and published fees, including when smaaart isn't first. How we compare

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.42 in / $1.25 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$33.50/ month(quotes below are for $34.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M