DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.
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DeepSeek vs ERNIE Bot
DeepSeek (DeepSeek) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (25 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | DeepSeek DeepSeek | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | 5.0-thinking-preview |
| Entry cost | Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on token consumption. No flat monthly fee. | Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on tokens. Token Plan Personal Edition and some free trials available. |
| Pricing tiers | deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Off-Peak) $0.003 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Peak) $0.006 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Off-Peak) $0.15 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Peak) $0.3 · deepseek-flash (Output - Off-Peak) $0.6 · deepseek-flash (Output - Peak) $1.2 | Token Plan Personal Edition / Pay-as-you-go free |
| Model stack | DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · deepseek-v4-flash · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | 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 | 1M | 119k |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 9 | 25 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output | 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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