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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview vs Grok 4.5

Output tokens cost $3.29 per million on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and $6.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Input tokens cost $0.82 per million on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and $2.00 per million on Grok 4.5. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.82 per million on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and $0.50 per million on Grok 4.5. Context lengths are 183,000 tokens on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 6.5s on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 1.8s on Grok 4.5. Measured output throughput is 72.1 tok/s on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 26.6 tok/s on Grok 4.5. On the LMArena coding leaderboard ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview scores 1491 and Grok 4.5 scores 1523.

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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
Baidu · text → text

The new generation Wenxin model, Wenxin 5.0, is a native full-modal large model that adopts native full-modal unified modeling technology, jointly modeling text, images, audio, and video, possessing comprehensive full-modal capabilities. Wenxin 5.0's basic abilities are comprehensively upgraded, performing excellently on benchmark test sets, especially in multimodal understanding, instruction compliance, creative writing, factual accuracy, intelligent agent planning, and tool application.

Input$0.82 /M
Output$3.29 /M
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Grok 4.5
Grok · text, image → text

Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.

Input$2.00 /M
Output$6.00 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
Grok 4.5
Input /M
$0.82
$2.00
Output /M
$3.29
$6.00
Cache read /M
$0.82
$0.50
Context length
183,000
500,000
Max output
64,000
500,000
Time to First Token
6.5 s
1.8 s
Throughput
72.1 tok/s
26.6 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingstructured outputsfunction calling
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
Released
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July 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
ernie-5.0-thinking-previewgrok-4.5
1400144014801520
Overall
14471470
Coding
14911523
Math
14381478
Hard prompts
14651495
Instruction following
14271466
Multi-turn
14411477
Creative writing
14231449
Longer query
14401485
Chinese
14961511
English
14511475

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
$98.64 /mo
Grok 4.5
$210 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview, Grok 4.5?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview: $3.29/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Grok 4.5: 1523; ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview: 1491 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Grok 4.5: 1.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview accepts 183,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.

Which one generates tokens faster?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview at 72.1 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 26.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview accepts text input and supports thinking, structured outputs and function calling; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.

Can I call ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview and Grok 4.5 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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