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 DeepSeek
ERNIE Bot (Baidu) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (27 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | ERNIE Bot Baidu | DeepSeek DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | ERNIE 5.0 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash |
| Entry cost | Pay-as-you-go API pricing. Offers free trial (免费试用) for skills, with models priced per thousand tokens. | Pay-as-you-go API pricing. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash starts at $0.15/1M input tokens (cache miss, off-peak) and $0.60/1M output tokens (off-peak). |
| Pricing tiers | ernie-5.0-thinking-preview Input (per 1k tokens) free · ernie-5.0-thinking-preview Output (per 1k tokens) free · ernie-x1.1-preview Input (per 1k tokens) free · ernie-x1.1-preview Output (per 1k tokens) free | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Context window | 119k | 1M |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 27 | 9 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output |
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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