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ERNIE-4.5-Turbo-128K

Baidu's volume workhorse at ~$0.12/$0.48 per 1M with a 4x cache discount — five times cheaper than ERNIE 5.1 and the right default for high-throughput extraction.

Data checked 2026-09-06

Chinese AI labs ga ernie-4.5-turbo-128k

Context window
128K tokens in
Max output
Input
$0.12 per 1M tokens
Output
$0.47 per 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.03 per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.21 3:1 in:out

A What it is for

At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, ERNIE-4.5-Turbo-128K costs $0.21 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $8.27 per month at list price, before caching or batch discounts.

B Capabilities

fast general chat context caching function calling
Input modalitiestext
Output modalitiestext

C Others from Chinese AI labs

Model Context Max out In $/M Out $/M Blended Status
Kimi K3 kimi-k3 1M $3.00 $15.00 $6.00 ga open
Kimi K2.7 Code kimi-k2.7-code 262.1K $0.95 $4.00 $1.71 ga open
Kimi K2.7 Code Highspeed kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed 262.1K $1.90 $8.00 $3.42 ga open
Kimi K2.6 kimi-k2.6 262.1K $0.95 $4.00 $1.71 ga open
GLM-5.3 glm-5.3 1M 131.1K $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 ga open
GLM-5.3-Flash glm-5.3-flash 1M 131.1K $0.07 $0.25 $0.12 ga open
GLM-5.2 glm-5.2 1M 131.1K $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 ga open
GLM-5 glm-5 200K 131.1K $1.00 $3.20 $1.55 ga open
GLM-4.7 glm-4.7 200K 131.1K $0.60 $2.20 $1.00 ga open
GLM-4.7-FlashX glm-4.7-flashx 200K 131.1K $0.07 $0.40 $0.15 ga
GLM-4.7-Flash glm-4.7-flash 200K 131.1K $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 ga
GLM-4.6V glm-4.6v 128K $0.30 $0.90 $0.45 ga

D Verify before you commit

Model pricing changes without notice and this page is a snapshot. Confirm against the vendor's own page before you build a budget on it.

Source: cloud.baidu.com · checked 2026-09-06 · Chinese AI labs pricing · API docs