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Baidu ERNIE AI API pricing

Baidu's ERNIE family powers Wenxin Yiyan and serves more enterprise Chinese AI workloads than any other model. ERNIE 4.5 is multimodal, ERNIE-X1 is a reasoning model, and both are priced aggressively for the China market via Qianfan.

Founded2000
HeadquartersBeijing, China
Tracked modelsDirectory

Best for

Apps targeting Chinese users that need native ecosystem integration.

Strengths

  • Largest installed base of Chinese enterprise LLM deployments
  • Multimodal ERNIE 4.5 + reasoning ERNIE-X1
  • Tight integration with Baidu Search and Maps
  • Aggressive RMB pricing on Qianfan platform