ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B vs Qwen3.6 Plus

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B at $0.483 in and $1.44 out and Qwen3.6 Plus at $0.374 in and $2.24 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

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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Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen

0.37¢

for a client proposal

$0.374 in · $2.24 out / 1M

1M context · released 4 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.72¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3.6 Plus at $0.374 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B at $1.44 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3.6 Plus at 1M tokens — about 1,400 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¢

Qwen3.6 Plus

0.19¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

0.36¢

Qwen3.6 Plus

0.37¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3.6 Plus

$0.07

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

1.8¢

Qwen3.6 Plus

1.5¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3.6 Plus

$0.10

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

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ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

Qwen3.6 Plus

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Pricing

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

Qwen3.6 Plus

Input / 1M tokens

$0.483

$0.374

Output / 1M tokens

$1.44

$2.24

Specs

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B

Qwen3.6 Plus

Provider

Baidu

Qwen

Released

June 2025

4 months ago

Context window

123K

Max output

16K

66K

Input

Images and Text

Text, Images, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2025-03-31

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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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Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen

0.19¢

for this task

40% input · 60% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.36¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,407 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3.6 Plus has the largest context window here — 1M tokens.

On price, ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.36¢.

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

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B pricing →Qwen3.6 Plus pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B at 0.36¢; Qwen3.6 Plus at 0.37¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3.6 Plus — 1M tokens, about 1,400 pages.

Can I run ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B and Qwen3.6 Plus side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.72¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.72¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.