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Claude Sonnet 5 vs ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
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Winner summary
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Sonnet 5 · ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Sonnet 5
#66 by perf·#10 by attention
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
#64 by perf·no signal
Best value
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
34.5x better value than Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Sonnet 5
9.5 pts/$
$6.00/M
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
325.7 pts/$
$0.18/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Baidu
$45.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $40.00 | |
| $0.07 | $0.28 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $1.23 |