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 (15 vs 11). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | ERNIE Bot Baidu | DeepSeek DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | 5.0 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| 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. | Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified. |
| Pricing tiers | Pay-as-you-go API free | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| 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-flash · 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-V4.1-Flash-1017 |
| Context window | 119k | 1000000 |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 15 | 11 |
| 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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