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ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking vs Grok 4

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking · Grok 4 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
#64 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Grok 4
#87 by perf·#15 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
325.7 pts/$
$0.18/M
Grok 4
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
baidu logo
Baidu
$45.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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
xAI logoGrok 4————