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ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

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Winner summary

Gemini 2.5 Pro wins 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in math · knowledge · language.

Category leads
math·Gemini 2.5 Proknowledge·Gemini 2.5 Prolanguage·Gemini 2.5 Procoding·Gemini 2.5 Pro
Hype vs Reality
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
#64 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Gemini 2.5 Pro
#116 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
36.1x better value than Gemini 2.5 Pro
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
325.7 pts/$
$0.18/M
Gemini 2.5 Pro
9.0 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
baidu logo
Baidu
$45.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingGemini 2.5 Pro
OpenCompass · AIME2025
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by +12.5
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
76.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
88.7
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by +24.5
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
60.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
84.7
OpenCompass · HLE
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by +14.6
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
6.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
21.1
OpenCompass · IFEval
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by +8.8
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
81.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
90.0
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by +24.3
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
47.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
71.3
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by +15.0
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
70.8
Gemini 2.5 Pro
85.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingGemini 2.5 Pro
OpenCompass · AIME2025
76.288.7
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
60.284.7
OpenCompass · HLE
6.521.1
OpenCompass · IFEval
81.290.0
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
47.071.3
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
70.885.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
baidu logoERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking$0.07$0.28131K tokens (~66 books)$1.23
Google DeepMind logoGemini 2.5 Pro$1.25$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$34.38