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ERNIE Bot vs ChatGPT

ERNIE Bot (Baidu) and ChatGPT (OpenAI) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (27 vs 11). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeERNIE Bot

Baidu

ChatGPT

OpenAI

SegmentWritingWriting
Version5.0-thinking-previewGPT-6 Astra
Entry costPay-as-you-go token pricing. Ernie 4.5 Turbo starts at ¥0.0008 per k-tokens input / ¥0.0032 per k-tokens output.Pricing not published in the provided documentation
Pricing tiersFree Tier freeFree Tier free
Model stackDeepSeek-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-PreviewGPT Image · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.2 Thinking · GPT-5.4 · gpt-5.6 · gpt-6-astra
Context window119k196K tokens on Plus
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d2711
OriginChinaGlobal
CapabilitiesMultimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCRVoice mode, Deep research, Canvas, Agent mode, Projects, Connectors, Realtime API, Voice agents

ERNIE Bot

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

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ChatGPT

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

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