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GPT-5 vs ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
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 · GPT-5 · ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
GPT-5
#72 by perf·no signal
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
#55 by perf·no signal
Best value
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
33.7x better value than GPT-5
GPT-5
9.7 pts/$
$5.63/M
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
325.7 pts/$
$0.18/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Baidu
$45.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K tokens (~200 books) | $34.38 |
| ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking | $0.07 | $0.28 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $1.23 |