LLM Comparison

Command R (08-2024) vs ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026

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	C Command R (08-2024)	E ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking
Organization	Cohere	Baidu
OpenTools Score	39 104
Family	Command	ERNIE
Status	Current	Current
Release Date	Aug 2024	Oct 2025
Context Window	128K tokens	131K tokens
Input Price	$0.15/M tokens	$0.07/M tokens
Output Price	$0.60/M tokens	$0.28/M tokens
Capabilities	textcode	textcodeextended-thinking
Max Output	4K tokens	66K tokens
API Identifier	`cohere/command-r-08-2024`	`baidu/ernie-4.5-21b-a3b-thinking`
Benchmarks
MMLU	68.4openrouter	—
	View Command R (08-2024)	View ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking

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Model	Input	Output	Total / mo	vs Best
ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingCheapest	$0.07	$0.14	$0.21	—
Command R (08-2024)	$0.15	$0.30	$0.45	+114%

Cohere

Command R (08-2024)

Command R (08-2024) is a large language model from Cohere. Supports up to 128,000 token context window. Achieves 68.4% on MMLU. Available from $0.15/M input tokens.

Baidu

ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking

ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B Thinking is a large language model from Baidu. Supports up to 131,072 token context window. Available from $0.07/M input tokens.