Looking for a free alternative to ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu)? Here are 9 notable open models worth trying — 9 with a free tier. ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) itself is free.
| Tool | ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) (you searched) | Qwen (Alibaba) | DeepSeek Models | Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | free | free | free | free |
| Best for | ERNIE-4.5 family including 21B-A3B Thinking and VL-424B-A47B multimodal MoE | Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0 | DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed | Open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models |
| Visit | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ |
Qwen (Alibaba) is the closest free alternative to ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu): same Notable Open Models sub-category, and it is free. Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0
Yes — 9 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Qwen (Alibaba), DeepSeek Models, Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral), OLMo (Ai2), Hunyuan (Tencent). None of them are paid-only.
ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) is free. There is no paid plan attached to it in the catalog.
They are the other tools in Notable Open Models, then the rest of AI Models & Local Execution, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — Open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — Only major model family shipping full pretraining data (Dolma), code and intermediate checkpoints, not just weights.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — Open-weight Hunyuan Hy3 and Hy4-preview flagship text models.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — Falcon-H1 hybrid Transformer-Mamba family for efficient long-context inference.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — MiniMax's open-weight M-series: M3 multimodal MoE with very long context, plus M2.x agentic-coding checkpoints.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1T parameters) and V2.6-Flash (311B) open-weight reasoning and agent models.
✦ WhyA ERNIE 4.5 Open Models (Baidu) alternative — Step-3.7-Flash open multimodal model with FP8, NVFP4 and GGUF builds.