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 Kimi
ERNIE Bot (Baidu) and Kimi (Moonshot AI) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (15 vs 10). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | ERNIE Bot Baidu | Kimi Moonshot AI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | 5.0 | K3.1 Pro |
| 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 based on token consumption (no monthly flat fee subscription plans published). |
| 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 | Kimi K2.6 · Kimi K2.7 Code · Kimi K3 · kimi-k2.5 · kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed · kimi-k3.1-pro · kimi-k3.1-pro-highspeed |
| Context window | 119k | 1M tokens |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 15 | 10 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR | Native multimodal (visual + text), 1M-token context, Agentic tool use, Thinking / non-thinking modes, Dedicated coding models (k2.7-code, high-speed), Open weights, 1M token context, Multimodal input |
Kimi
Moonshot AI's assistant, known for very long context windows and the open-weight K2 agentic model.
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