ERNIE Bot
Baidu's assistant (Wenxin Yiyan), backed by the ERNIE model line and integrated into Baidu Search.
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ERNIE Bot vs Claude
ERNIE Bot (Baidu) and Claude (Anthropic) 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 12). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | ERNIE Bot Baidu | Claude Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | 5.0 | 5.5 |
| Entry cost | 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. | Free tier · from $17/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Pay-as-you-go API free | Free free · Pro (Annual Subscription Discount) $17 · Pro (Billed Monthly) $20 · Max $100 · Ultra $200 · Team Standard seat (Billed Monthly) $25 · Team Standard seat (Billed Annually) $20 · Team Premium seat (Billed Monthly) $125 |
| Model stack | 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 | Claude Fable 5 · Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Haiku 5.5 · Claude Mythos 5 · Claude Mythos 5.1 · Claude Opus 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Opus 5 · Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude Sonnet 5 · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Opus 4.6 · Opus 4.7 · Sonnet 4.5 · Sonnet 4.6 |
| Context window | 119k | 1M |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 15 | 12 |
| Origin | China | Global |
| Capabilities | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR | Extended thinking, Agentic research, Computer use, Projects & memory, Artifacts, MCP connectors, Vision, Code execution |
Claude
Known for long context, careful reasoning, and artifact-style document editing.
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