Claude Opus 4.8 vs ERNIE 4.5

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations.

ERNIE 4.5

Baidu · text, image → text

Wenxin Large Model 4.5 is a next-generation native multimodal foundational model independently developed by Baidu. It achieves collaborative optimization through joint modeling of multiple modalities, demonstrating excellent multimodal understanding capabilities; it possesses more advanced language abilities, with comprehensive improvements in comprehension, generation, logic, and memory, as well as significant enhancements in hallucination reduction, logical reasoning, and coding capabilities.ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B is an aligned open-source model with a MoE structure, having a total of 21 billion parameters and 3 billion activated parameters.