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 Grok
ERNIE Bot (Baidu) and Grok (xAI) 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 11). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | ERNIE Bot Baidu | Grok xAI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | 5.0 | Grok 4.7 |
| 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. | from $2/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Pay-as-you-go API free | Grok 4.7 Input (per 1M tokens) $2 · Grok 4.7 Output (per 1M tokens) $6 |
| 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 | grok-4.5 · grok-4.6 · grok-4.7 · grok-imagine-image · grok-imagine-image-2.0 · grok-imagine-image-quality · grok-imagine-video · grok-imagine-video-1.5 |
| Context window | 119k | 500000 |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 15 | 11 |
| Origin | China | Global |
| Capabilities | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR | Real-time X search, Think and Big Brain modes, Voice mode, Image generation, API access, text generation, agentic coding, voice agent |
Grok
Grok pairs xAI's in-house models with live access to the X firehose, sold standalone and bundled into X Premium tiers.
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