ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen3 8B 0528

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen3 8B 0528 is 1.2× cheaper for input tokens: ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking costs $0.07 per M and DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen3 8B 0528 costs $0.06 per M. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen3 8B 0528 is 3.1× cheaper for output tokens: ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking costs $0.28 per M and DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen3 8B 0528 costs $0.09 per M. About the same: ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking takes up to 131,072 tokens of context and DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen3 8B 0528 up to 128,000.

ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-ThinkingDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen3 8B 0528
Model idbaidu/ernie-4.5-21B-a3b-thinkingdeepseek/deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b
Input$0.07 per M$0.06 per M
Output$0.28 per M$0.09 per M
Context length131,072 tokens128,000 tokens
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