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ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B vs Lyria 3 Clip Preview vs Inkling Small

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B at $0.483 in and $1.44 out, Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 in and $0 out, and Inkling Small at $0.517 in and $1.38 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

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ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

Baidu

0.36¢

for a client proposal

$0.483 in · $1.44 out / 1M

123K context · released June 2025

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Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for a client proposal

$0 in · $0 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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Inkling Small

Thinkingmachines

0.37¢

for a client proposal

$0.517 in · $1.38 out / 1M

524K context · released 1 week ago

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Asking all three at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.73¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

  • Cheapest input: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
  • Cheapest output: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at $0 per million tokens.
  • Largest context: Lyria 3 Clip Preview at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
0.17¢
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Inkling Small
0.17¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
0.36¢
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Inkling Small
0.37¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
needs 155K ctx
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Inkling Small
$0.09

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
1.8¢
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Inkling Small
1.9¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
needs 250K ctx
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Free
Inkling Small
$0.13

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output
free$0.34$0.690 tokens250k500k750k1000k
ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Inkling Small

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Inkling Small
Input / 1M tokens
$0.483
$0
$0.517
Output / 1M tokens
$1.44
$0
$1.38
Cached input / 1M
$0.115

Specs

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B
Lyria 3 Clip Preview
Inkling Small
Released
June 2025
4 months ago
1 week ago
Context window
123K
1.05M
524K
Max output
16K
66K
262K
Input
Images and Text
Text and Images
Text, Images, and Audio
Output
Text
Text and Audio
Text
Reasoning
Shows its thinking
Answers directly
Shows its thinking
Knowledge cutoff
2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

Baidu

0.17¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

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Lyria 3 Clip Preview

Google

Free

for this task

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Inkling Small

Thinkingmachines

0.17¢

for this task

60% input · 40% output

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All 3, same prompt and context: 0.34¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,466 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Lyria 3 Clip Preview has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Lyria 3 Clip Preview is the cheapest of the three on a typical task, at about free.

If you want to watch the model think, ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B and Inkling Small show reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all three, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Questions, answered

Which is cheapest — ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B, Lyria 3 Clip Preview, or Inkling Small?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Lyria 3 Clip Preview at free; ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B at 0.36¢; Inkling Small at 0.37¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Lyria 3 Clip Preview — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B, Lyria 3 Clip Preview, and Inkling Small side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 3, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.73¢ for a typical task.

Ask all three at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.73¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.