Qwen Chat
Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.
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Qwen Chat vs ERNIE Bot
Qwen Chat (Alibaba) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (15 vs 11). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Qwen Chat Alibaba | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Qwen3-2507 | 5.0 |
| Entry cost | Open source models available on Hugging Face and ModelScope; API and Model Studio prices not explicitly detailed. | 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 | Chat with Qwen free | Pay-as-you-go API free |
| Model stack | Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQ | 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 | 256K | 119k |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 11 | 15 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Web search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understanding | 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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