As of August 20, 2026, ERNIE 4.5 is 56% cheaper per million tokens than Jamba 1.5 Large. ERNIE 4.5 is $0.40 / $4.00 per million input/output tokens versus Jamba 1.5 Large at $2.00 / $8.00. Source: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing
Source: AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing)
ERNIE 4.5
Baidu
Input
$0.40
Output
$4.00
Jamba 1.5 Large
AI21 Labs
Input
$2.00
Output
$8.00
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
ERNIE 4.5Jamba 1.5 LargeVerdict
ERNIE 4.5 offers significantly lower pricing, while Jamba 1.5 Large leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.
As of August 20, 2026, ERNIE 4.5 is 56% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. ERNIE 4.5 costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens ($4.40 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Jamba 1.5 Large costs $2.00 / $8.00 per million tokens ($10.00 blended). Sources: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
ERNIE 4.5 Baidu API pricing is $0.40 input and $4.00 output per million tokens via Baidu. Jamba 1.5 Large AI21 Labs API pricing is $2.00 input and $8.00 output per million tokens via AI21 Labs. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Jamba 1.5 Large leads on HumanEval: ERNIE 4.5 at 25% vs Jamba 1.5 Large at 71.3%. SWE-bench measures real GitHub fixes; LiveCodeBench measures contest programming.
ERNIE 4.5 supports a 128K token context window, while Jamba 1.5 Large supports 256K tokens. Jamba 1.5 Large offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Jamba 1.5 Large leads on 6 of 7 shared benchmarks versus ERNIE 4.5's 1 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both ERNIE 4.5 and Jamba 1.5 Large are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, ERNIE 4.5 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call ERNIE 4.5 through Baidu and Jamba 1.5 Large through AI21 Labs with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Baidu API pricing and AI21 Labs API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
ERNIE 4.5 supports up to 66K output tokens per request, while Jamba 1.5 Large supports up to 256K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Jamba 1.5 Large has a measured throughput of approximately 42 tokens/second. Throughput data for ERNIE 4.5 is not yet available. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open ERNIE 4.5 or Jamba 1.5 Large from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. ERNIE 4.5 costs $0.40/M input and $4.00/M output. Jamba 1.5 Large costs $2.00/M input and $8.00/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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