Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B

Baidu's ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B demonstrates competitive response times, ranking in the 56th percentile for speed across various benchmarks. Its pricing is a significant advantage, consistently placing it among the most competitive models with an 81st percentile ranking. The model exhibits exceptional reliability, boasting a 98% success rate, indicating minimal technical failures. In terms of performance across categories, ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B shows strong capabilities in Hallucinations (92.0% accuracy) and General Knowledge (94.3% accuracy), suggesting a good understanding of factual information and an ability to acknowledge uncertainty. It also performs well in Ethics (94.5% accuracy). However, its accuracy in Mathematics (82.0%), Email Classification (93.5%), Instruction Following (51.2%), and Reasoning (50.0%) falls into the lower percentiles, indicating areas for potential improvement. Coding performance is moderate at 77.2%. Key strengths include its high reliability and cost-effectiveness, making it an attractive option for applications where these factors are paramount. Its primary weaknesses lie in complex reasoning and instruction following, where accuracy is comparatively lower.