When it comes to AI, the models are becoming more powerful and cheaper. Take Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 for instance: it is a model with DeepSeek R1 performance at half the price. This multimodal model lets you upload a video to have it analyzed for you. As this image shows, it can hold its own against GPT 4.5 and other top models.
ERNIE 4.5 achieves collaborative optimization through joint modeling of multiple modalities, exhibiting comprehensive improvements in understanding, generation, reasoning and memory, along with notable enhancements in hallucination prevention, logical reasoning, and coding… pic.twitter.com/8Iu3pmpMtV
— Baidu Inc. (@Baidu_Inc) March 16, 2025
The chat interface is available for free but you are going to need a valid Baidu account to get started. Here is how much it will cost:
ERNIE 4.5: Input and output prices start as low as $0.55 per 1M tokens and $2.2 per 1M tokens, respectively.
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