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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Grok vs ERNIE Bot
Grok (xAI) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (25 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Grok xAI | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Grok 4.6 | 5.0-thinking-preview |
| Entry cost | Free Playground available; pay-as-you-go API pricing with Grok 4.6 starting at $2.00/1M input and $6.00/1M output tokens. | Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on tokens. Token Plan Personal Edition and some free trials available. |
| Pricing tiers | Console / Playground free | Token Plan Personal Edition / Pay-as-you-go free |
| Model stack | grok-4.5 · grok-4.6 · grok-imagine-image · grok-imagine-image-2.0 · grok-imagine-image-quality · grok-imagine-video · grok-imagine-video-1.5 | 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 |
| Context window | 500000 | 119k |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 25 |
| Origin | Global | China |
| Capabilities | Real-time X search, Think and Big Brain modes, Voice mode, Image generation, API access, text generation, agentic coding, voice agent | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR |
ERNIE Bot
Baidu's assistant (Wenxin Yiyan), backed by the ERNIE model line and integrated into Baidu Search.
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