ChatGPT
The most widely used consumer AI assistant, spanning writing, analysis, images and voice.
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ChatGPT vs ERNIE Bot
ChatGPT (OpenAI) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go API pricing with select free trial skills/components. Ernie 5.0 at 0.006-0.01 RMB per 1k input tokens.. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (15 vs 4). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | ChatGPT OpenAI | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | GPT-6 | 5.0 |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $20/mo | Pay-as-you-go API pricing with select free trial skills/components. Ernie 5.0 at 0.006-0.01 RMB per 1k input tokens. |
| Pricing tiers | ChatGPT Free free · ChatGPT Plus $20 | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| Model stack | Astra · Codex · GPT Image · GPT-4 · GPT-4o · GPT-4o mini · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.2 Thinking · GPT-5.4 · gpt-5.6 · GPT-6 · gpt-6-astra · GPT-Live-1 · o1 · o3-mini | DeepSeek-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 window | 196K tokens on Plus | 119k |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 4 | 15 |
| Origin | Global | China |
| Capabilities | Voice mode, Deep research, Canvas, Agent mode, Projects, Connectors, Realtime API, Voice agents | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR |
ERNIE Bot
Baidu's assistant (Wenxin Yiyan), backed by the ERNIE model line and integrated into Baidu Search.
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