# ERNIE (Baidu) — AI Compare Ninja

> Baidu's ERNIE model family, available as a Chinese-language chat assistant at wenxin.baidu.com and as a paid API through the Baidu Qianfan platform.

## Overview
- **Category:** Productivity (Assistants & workspaces)
- **Status:** Renamed - The ERNIE model line still exists (current generation ERNIE 5.1, released 8 May 2026 per the ERNIE blog. ERNIE 5.0 is what the API offers). The consumer product has been renamed: on 27 Aug 2026 yiyan.baidu.com (formerly ERNIE Bot / Wenxin Yiyan) redirects to wenxin.baidu.com titled '百度文心助手' (Baidu Wenxin Assistant). Chat.baidu.com redirects there too. Developer access runs through the Baidu Qianfan platform.
- **Paid from:** $1.4 / $5.6 / Per 1 million tokens (Qianfan International API - ERNIE 5.0 (Text generation, usage-based))
- **Free access:** not published
- **Website:** https://wenxin.baidu.com/
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## What it does
- 128,000-token context length; input up to 119,000 tokens, output up to 65,536 tokens
- Chinese-language chat assistant by Baidu with web access
- Multimodal input (text and image) in the web interface
- Free access to the base model variant
- Baidu's ERNIE model family for Chinese enterprise and consumer applications

## In brief
Baidu's ERNIE model family, available as a Chinese-language chat assistant at wenxin.baidu.com and as a paid API through the Baidu Qianfan platform.

The international Qianfan price page lists ERNIE 5.0 for text generation, visual understanding, and deep thinking at $1.40 per million input tokens and $5.60 per million output tokens. This is an API usage price, not a price for the Chinese chat assistant. Other models, regions, and accounts can have different tables.


## Limits
The international Qianfan price page lists ERNIE 5.0 for text generation, visual understanding, and deep thinking at $1.40 per million input tokens and $5.60 per million output tokens. This is an API usage price, not a price for the Chinese chat assistant. Other models, regions, and accounts can have different tables.

## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qianfan International API - ERNIE 5.0 (Text generation, usage-based) | $1.4 / $5.6 | Per 1 million tokens | context length 128k tokens, max input 119k tokens, output 1 to 65,536 tokens; default rate limit RPM = 60, TPM = 150,000; OpenAI-compatible REST API at api.baiduqianfan.ai |
| Qianfan International API - ERNIE 5.0 (Visual Understanding, usage-based) | $1.4 / $5.6 | Per 1 million tokens | same token price as text generation |
| Qianfan International API - ERNIE 5.0 (Deep Thinking, usage-based) | $1.4 / $5.6 | Per 1 million tokens | same token price as text generation |
| Chat assistant wenxin.baidu.com (formerly ERNIE Bot / yiyan.baidu.com) | contact sales | - | Chinese-language assistant, access only with a Baidu account; no pricing or membership tiers are published publicly; robots.txt disallows all subpages |
| Qianfan International API - ERNIE 5.1 (usage-based) | $0.56 / $2.53 (≤32K); $0.84 / $3.1 (32K-128K) | Per 1 million tokens | context length 128k tokens, max input 119k tokens, output 1 to 65,536 tokens; default rate limit RPM = 60, TPM = 150,000; OpenAI-compatible REST API at api.baiduqianfan.ai |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://intl.cloud.baidu.com/en/doc/qianfan/s/Jm8r1826a-intl-en
- https://wenxin.baidu.com/

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/ernie-baidu*