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ChatGPT vs ERNIE Bot

ChatGPT (OpenAI) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (25 vs 12). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeChatGPT

OpenAI

ERNIE Bot

Baidu

SegmentWritingWriting
VersionGPT-6 Astra5.0-thinking-preview
Entry costPricing not published in the provided documentationPay-as-you-go API pricing based on tokens. Token Plan Personal Edition and some free trials available.
Pricing tiersFree Tier freeToken Plan Personal Edition / Pay-as-you-go free
Model stackGPT Image · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.2 Thinking · GPT-5.4 · gpt-5.6 · gpt-6-astraDeepSeek-V3.1 · ERNIE 4.5 (open weights) · ERNIE 4.5 Turbo · ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL · ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B · ERNIE 5.0 · ERNIE X1.1 Preview · ernie-4.5-turbo-128k · ERNIE-5.0-Thinking-Preview
Context window196K tokens on Plus119k
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d1225
OriginGlobalChina
CapabilitiesVoice mode, Deep research, Canvas, Agent mode, Projects, Connectors, Realtime API, Voice agentsMultimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR

ChatGPT

The most widely used consumer AI assistant, spanning writing, analysis, images and voice.

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ERNIE Bot

Baidu's assistant (Wenxin Yiyan), backed by the ERNIE model line and integrated into Baidu Search.

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