A powerful multimodal Mixture-of-Experts chat model featuring 28B total parameters with 3B activated per token, delivering exceptional text and vision understanding through its innovative heterogeneous MoE structure with modality-isolated r…
Model details →Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is an experimental vision-enabled version of [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731](https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731) from DeepSeek, adding image understanding while matching the base model on text capabi…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 30K | 1.0M | 🏆 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.14 | $0.22 | 🏆 Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.56 | $0.65 | 🏆 Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B better than DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp?
Input: $0.14 vs $0.22 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.56 vs $0.65 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp support?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B supports up to 30K tokens. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp supports up to 1.0M tokens.
Do both Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp support tool calling?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B: yes. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: yes.