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| Starting Price | $7.00e-8 per prompt token | $3.00e-6 per prompt token |
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Generates text using a 21B parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture that activates only 3B parameters per token through learned routing mechanisms. This sparse activation pattern reduces computational overhead while maintaining model capacity, using heterogeneous expert specialization where different experts handle distinct semantic or linguistic domains. The routing mechanism learns to select which expert subset processes each token based on input context.
Unique: Uses heterogeneous MoE structure with modality-isolated routing, meaning different expert subsets are specialized for different input modalities or semantic categories, rather than generic expert pools. This architectural choice enables the model to maintain multimodal understanding (text + image) while keeping sparse activation efficient.
vs alternatives: Achieves lower per-token latency than dense 21B models (e.g., Llama 2 21B) while maintaining competitive quality through learned expert specialization, making it faster and cheaper than dense alternatives at similar parameter counts.
Processes both text and image inputs through a unified architecture where modality-isolated routing directs image and text tokens to specialized expert subsets. The model encodes images into token sequences (likely through a vision encoder) and routes them through experts trained specifically for visual understanding, while text tokens follow separate routing paths. This heterogeneous design allows the model to reason across modalities without forcing all experts to handle both equally.
Unique: Implements modality-isolated routing where image and text processing paths are separated at the expert level, rather than using a single unified expert pool. This allows vision-specific experts to specialize in visual reasoning while text experts handle linguistic tasks, improving efficiency and specialization compared to generic multimodal experts.
vs alternatives: Provides multimodal capabilities with sparse activation (only 3B active parameters), making it faster and cheaper than dense multimodal models like GPT-4V or Claude 3 while maintaining competitive understanding across both modalities.
Maintains conversation state across multiple turns by accepting full conversation history in API requests and using attention mechanisms to track context dependencies. The model processes the entire conversation history to generate contextually appropriate responses, with routing decisions informed by prior turns. This approach allows the model to reference earlier statements, maintain consistent character or tone, and resolve pronouns and references across turns.
Unique: Uses MoE routing informed by full conversation history, meaning expert selection for generating each response token considers the entire prior dialogue. This differs from models that treat each turn independently or use fixed context windows, enabling more contextually-aware expert specialization.
vs alternatives: Handles multi-turn conversations with sparse activation (3B active parameters), reducing per-token cost compared to dense models while maintaining conversation coherence across turns.
Generates text incrementally through token-by-token streaming, allowing clients to receive and display partial responses before generation completes. The API returns tokens as they are generated rather than waiting for full completion, enabling real-time user feedback and lower perceived latency. This is implemented through HTTP streaming (likely Server-Sent Events or chunked transfer encoding) where each token is sent as it exits the sparse MoE routing and generation pipeline.
Unique: Streams tokens from a sparse MoE model where routing decisions are made per-token, potentially allowing clients to observe which expert subsets are activated for different tokens if metadata is exposed. This provides visibility into model behavior that dense models typically hide.
vs alternatives: Provides streaming output with lower per-token latency than dense models due to sparse activation, making real-time interfaces feel more responsive while reducing backend compute costs.
Exposes the ERNIE 4.5 21B model through OpenRouter's unified API interface, allowing developers to call the model using standard HTTP requests without direct Baidu API integration. OpenRouter handles authentication, rate limiting, and request routing, providing a consistent interface across multiple model providers. Requests are formatted as JSON with standard chat completion schemas, and responses follow OpenAI-compatible formats for easy integration with existing LLM tooling.
Unique: Provides OpenAI-compatible API wrapper around Baidu's proprietary MoE model, allowing developers to use ERNIE 4.5 as a drop-in replacement in applications built for OpenAI's API format. This abstraction layer handles Baidu-specific details (routing, expert selection) transparently.
vs alternatives: Offers unified API access to Baidu's sparse MoE model through OpenRouter's multi-provider platform, enabling easy comparison and switching between Baidu, OpenAI, and Anthropic models without code changes.
Reduces inference costs by activating only 3B of 21B parameters per token, lowering computational requirements and memory bandwidth compared to dense models. The sparse activation is achieved through learned routing that selects which expert subset processes each token based on input content. This architectural choice reduces floating-point operations (FLOPs) and memory access patterns, directly translating to lower API costs and faster inference latency.
Unique: Achieves cost reduction through architectural sparsity (3B active of 21B total) rather than quantization or distillation, maintaining full model capacity while reducing per-token compute. This differs from dense models that must choose between smaller parameter counts or higher costs.
vs alternatives: Delivers lower per-token inference costs than dense 21B models (e.g., Llama 2 21B) while maintaining competitive quality, making it ideal for cost-sensitive production deployments at scale.
Generates natural language responses mimicking Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus writing style through fine-tuning on Qwen2.5 72B base model. Uses instruction-tuned architecture to follow complex multi-step prompts while maintaining coherent, well-structured prose with appropriate tone and formality levels. The model learns stylistic patterns from Claude outputs during fine-tuning rather than using retrieval or prompt engineering alone.
Unique: Fine-tuned specifically on Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus output patterns rather than generic instruction-tuning, creating a style-matched alternative that preserves Anthropic's prose characteristics while running on Qwen2.5's 72B architecture
vs alternatives: Offers Claude-quality writing at lower cost than Anthropic's API and with more deployment flexibility than proprietary models, though with less transparency about training methodology than fully open-source alternatives like Llama
Maintains coherent multi-turn dialogue through transformer-based attention mechanisms that track conversation history and speaker context. The instruction-tuned architecture processes entire conversation threads as input, allowing the model to reference previous exchanges, maintain consistent character/tone, and resolve pronouns and references across turns without explicit memory structures.
Unique: Inherits Qwen2.5's instruction-tuning approach to conversation, which explicitly trains on multi-turn formats with clear role markers, enabling better context resolution than models trained primarily on single-turn examples
vs alternatives: Simpler integration than systems requiring external memory stores (RAG, vector DBs) since context is handled natively, but less sophisticated than models with explicit memory architectures or retrieval-augmented approaches for very long conversations
Both Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B and Magnum v4 72B offer these capabilities:
Maintains coherent multi-turn dialogue through transformer-based attention mechanisms that track conversation history and speaker context. The instruction-tuned architecture processes entire conversation threads as input, allowing the model to reference previous exchanges, maintain consistent character/tone, and resolve pronouns and references across turns without explicit memory structures.
Magnum v4 72B scores higher at 25/100 vs Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B at 22/100.
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Generates code snippets and technical explanations by applying instruction-tuned patterns learned from fine-tuning on Claude outputs. The model understands code context from natural language descriptions, can generate multiple programming languages, and provides explanations alongside code. Implementation relies on transformer attention over code tokens and learned associations between natural language intent and code patterns.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's code generation outputs, capturing Anthropic's approach to code explanation and safety considerations (e.g., error handling suggestions) rather than pure code-to-code translation
vs alternatives: Provides better code explanations and safety context than specialized code models like CodeLlama, but likely slower and less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on code-only datasets
Applies learned chain-of-thought reasoning patterns from Claude fine-tuning to break down complex problems into steps. The model generates intermediate reasoning steps before final answers, using transformer attention to track logical dependencies across reasoning chains. This is achieved through instruction-tuning on examples where Claude explicitly shows reasoning work.
Unique: Inherits Claude's explicit chain-of-thought training approach, which emphasizes showing reasoning work as part of the output rather than reasoning internally, making reasoning patterns visible and auditable
vs alternatives: More transparent reasoning than models without explicit chain-of-thought training, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on mathematical reasoning datasets or formal logic
Condenses long-form text into summaries while preserving key information, using attention mechanisms to identify salient content and instruction-tuned patterns for summary formatting. The model learns from Claude's summarization style, which emphasizes clarity and hierarchical organization of information. Works by attending to important tokens and generating compressed representations.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's summarization outputs, which emphasize hierarchical structure and clear topic organization rather than extractive summarization, producing more readable abstracts
vs alternatives: Better prose quality and readability than extractive summarization tools, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on summarization tasks or using dedicated abstractive architectures
Executes complex, multi-part instructions by parsing task structure and maintaining execution context across steps. The instruction-tuned architecture learns to identify task boundaries, handle conditional logic (if-then patterns), and sequence operations correctly. Implementation relies on transformer attention to track task state and learned patterns from Claude's instruction-following training.
Unique: Trained on Claude's instruction-following patterns, which emphasize explicit acknowledgment of task structure and step-by-step execution reporting, making task progress transparent
vs alternatives: More reliable instruction-following than base models without instruction-tuning, but less specialized than models with explicit task planning architectures or reinforcement learning from human feedback on instruction compliance
Answers questions by understanding context, identifying relevant information, and generating coherent responses. Uses transformer attention to locate answer-relevant tokens and instruction-tuned patterns to format responses appropriately. The model learns from Claude's question-answering style, which emphasizes accuracy, nuance, and acknowledgment of uncertainty.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's QA outputs, which emphasize acknowledging uncertainty, providing nuanced answers, and explaining reasoning rather than simple factual retrieval
vs alternatives: Better answer quality and nuance than retrieval-based QA systems, but without external knowledge bases or web search, limited to training data knowledge unlike RAG-augmented systems
Generates creative text including stories, essays, marketing copy, and other original content by learning stylistic patterns from Claude's creative outputs. The model uses transformer attention to maintain narrative coherence, character consistency, and thematic development across generated text. Fine-tuning captures Claude's approach to balancing creativity with clarity.
Unique: Fine-tuned on Claude's creative outputs, which balance imaginative storytelling with clarity and coherence, producing more readable creative content than models trained purely on internet text
vs alternatives: Better prose quality and narrative coherence than base language models, but less specialized than models fine-tuned specifically on creative writing datasets or with explicit story structure training