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ERNIE 4.5 0.3B vs ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B Thinking
Put two to four models side by side on the fields that decide a deployment: context, price, region, license, languages, hosting, and what is verified.
| ERNIE 4.5 0.3B | ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B Thinking | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Baidu | Baidu |
| Parameters | 0.4B | 21.8B |
| Context window | Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. | Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. |
| License | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Modalities | text | text |
| Release date | 28 Jun 2025 | 08 Sept 2025 |
| Languages | Strong: en Adequate: zh | Strong: en Adequate: zh |
| Open weights | yes | yes |
| Tasks | Low cost, Multilingual support | Reasoning, Low cost |
Where two models differ, this table shows the difference and stops. LLM EU publishes no winner badge without a documented score for that task, and a missing figure stays missing instead of becoming a zero.
When to use it
ERNIE 4.5 0.3B
Strengths
- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 0.4B parameters it fits on a single accelerator
- the model page lists en
Limits
- catalogue only — LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 0.4B parameters, the weights fit on a single modest accelerator
- a base checkpoint: it answers nothing useful without fine-tuning or a task head
Tasks
ERNIE 4.5 21B-A3B Thinking
Strengths
- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- the model page lists en
- instruction-tuned checkpoint with a chat template in the repository
Limits
- catalogue only — LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 21.8B parameters, self-hosting needs a single accelerator with enough memory for the weights
Tasks
Tasks: Low cost