MiniMax
Shanghai lab shipping the M-series text models alongside its Hailuo video and speech products.
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MiniMax vs ERNIE Bot
MiniMax (MiniMax) 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 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | MiniMax MiniMax | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | M3.1 Flash | 5.0 |
| Entry cost | from $0.3/mo | 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 tiers | Free free · API input /M $0.3 · API output /M $1.2 | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| Model stack | H3 · M2.5 · M2.7 · M3 · MiniMax Code · MiniMax H3 · MiniMax M2.5 · MiniMax M2.7 · MiniMax M3 · MiniMax M3.1 Flash · MiniMax Music 3.0 · MiniMax Speech 2.8 · MiniMax-M2.1 · Music 3.0 · Speech 2.8 | 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 | 1000000 | 119k |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 9 | 15 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Interleaved thinking, Tool calling, Open weights, Long context, Text Generation, Code Generation, Video Generation, Speech Generation | 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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