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ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins on 6/6 benchmarks
Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in math · knowledge · language.
Category leads
math·Qwen3.5 397B A17Bknowledge·Qwen3.5 397B A17Blanguage·Qwen3.5 397B A17Bcoding·Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
#64 by perf·no signal
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
#48 by perf·#2 by attention
Best value
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
11.0x better value than Qwen3.5 397B A17B
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
325.7 pts/$
$0.18/M
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
29.6 pts/$
$2.02/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Baidu
$45.0B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingQwen3.5 397B A17B
OpenCompass · AIME2025
Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads by +16.1
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
76.2
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
92.3
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads by +28.2
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
60.2
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
88.4
OpenCompass · HLE
Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads by +21.0
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
6.5
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
27.5
OpenCompass · IFEval
Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads by +10.3
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
81.2
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
91.5
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads by +36.0
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
47.0
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
83.0
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
Qwen3.5 397B A17B leads by +16.8
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
70.8
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
87.6
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking | Qwen3.5 397B A17B |
|---|---|---|
OpenCompass · AIME2025 | 76.2 | 92.3 |
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond | 60.2 | 88.4 |
OpenCompass · HLE | 6.5 | 27.5 |
OpenCompass · IFEval | 81.2 | 91.5 |
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6 | 47.0 | 83.0 |
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro | 70.8 | 87.6 |
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 | |
| $0.55 | $3.50 | 262K tokens (~131 books) | $12.88 |