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ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking vs GPT-5 Mini
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking · GPT-5 Mini are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
#64 by perf·no signal
GPT-5 Mini
#108 by perf·#4 by attention
Best value
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
7.1x better value than GPT-5 Mini
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
325.7 pts/$
$0.18/M
GPT-5 Mini
45.8 pts/$
$1.13/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Baidu
$45.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.07 | $0.28 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $1.23 | |
| $0.25 | $2.00 | 400K tokens (~200 books) | $6.88 |