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 Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking is the reasoning-optimized variant of the Qwen3-VL-8B multimodal model, designed for advanced visual and textual reasoning across complex scenes, documents, and temporal sequences. It integrates enhanced multimodal alig…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B | Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 30K | 131K | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.14 | $0.12 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.56 | $1.36 | 🏆 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 Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking 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 Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?
Input: $0.14 vs $0.12 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.56 vs $1.36 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking support?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B supports up to 30K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking support tool calling?
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B: yes. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking: yes.