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Kimi vs ERNIE Bot

Kimi (Moonshot AI) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) 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.

AttributeKimi

Moonshot AI

ERNIE Bot

Baidu

SegmentWritingWriting
VersionK3.1 Pro5.0
Entry costPay-as-you-go API pricing based on token consumption (no monthly flat fee subscription plans published).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.
Pricing tiersPay-as-you-go (API) freePay-as-you-go API free
Model stackKimi K2.6 · Kimi K2.7 Code · Kimi K3 · kimi-k2.5 · kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed · kimi-k3.1-pro · kimi-k3.1-pro-highspeedDeepSeek-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 window1M tokens119k
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d1015
OriginChinaChina
CapabilitiesNative 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 inputMultimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR

Kimi

Moonshot AI's assistant, known for very long context windows and the open-weight K2 agentic model.

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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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