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ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking vs MiniMind
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | ||
| Family | ERNIE | MiniMind |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Oct 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 131K tokens | 1K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.07/M tokens | Free |
| Output Price | $0.28/M tokens | Free |
| Pricing Notes | — | Open-source project; API pricing is not applicable unless a downstream host adds serving costs. |
| Capabilities | textcodeextended-thinking | texteducationtraining |
| Training Cutoff | — | Not specified |
| Max Output | 66K tokens | 1K tokens |
| API Identifier | baidu/ernie-4.5-21b-a3b-thinking | jingyaogong/minimind |
| View ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking | View MiniMind |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
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| MiniMindCheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking | $0.07 | $0.14 | $0.21 | +0% |
Baidu
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking is a large language model from Baidu. Supports up to 131,072 token context window. Available from $0.07/M input tokens.
Jingyao Gong
MiniMind
MiniMind is a small open-source language-model training project that demonstrates how to train a 64M-parameter LLM from scratch. The repository is aimed at builders who want a compact, inspectable model-training path rather than a hosted frontier API.
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