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Grok vs ERNIE Bot

Grok (xAI) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) 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 10). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeGrok

xAI

ERNIE Bot

Baidu

SegmentWritingWriting
VersionGrok 4.75.0
Entry costfrom $2/moPay-as-you-go API pricing with select free trial skills/components. Ernie 5.0 at 0.006-0.01 RMB per 1k input tokens.
Pricing tiersGrok 4.7 Input (per 1M tokens) $2 · Grok 4.7 Output (per 1M tokens) $6Pay-as-you-go API free
Model stackgrok-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-1.5DeepSeek-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
Context window500000119k
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d1015
OriginGlobalChina
CapabilitiesReal-time X search, Think and Big Brain modes, Voice mode, Image generation, API access, text generation, agentic coding, voice agentMultimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR

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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ERNIE Bot

Baidu's assistant (Wenxin Yiyan), backed by the ERNIE model line and integrated into Baidu Search.

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