Baidu
ERNIE models (4.5 open-weights, 5 series) behind the ERNIE Bot assistant and Baidu Cloud.
- Provider rank
- #30
- by best model
- Best index
- 48.4
- Ernie 5.0 (thinking)
- Ranked models
- 2
- 2 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
- $0.485/M
- ERNIE 4.5
Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
Not enough dated, ranked models to draw a timeline.
Next release
Not enough dated releases to estimate a cadence.
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Every Baidu model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
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| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ernie 5.0thinkingBaidu | 48.4±4 | – | – | – | 128k | – | – |
| 2 | ERNIE 4.5Baiduopen | 44.8±3 | $0.485 | – | – | 131k | 2025-07-02 | – |
| 3 | Ernie 5.1Baidu | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-09-02 |
| 4 | Ernie 4.5 Vl 424B A47bBaiduopen ↗ | – | $0.628 | 16 | 1.79 s | 123k | 2025-06-30 | – |
Latest news
- Baidu CEO vows to return Ernie to AI frontier as revenue miss sinks sharesReuters · 18 Aug 2026
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- China approves Apple Intelligence for iPhones, with Alibaba, Baidu as partnersscmp.com · 15 Jul 2026
- Ernie 5.0: Baidu's 2.4 trillion parameter model becomes China's best in LMArena - the-decoder.comthe-decoder.com · 22 Jan 2026
- Baidu posts 5th straight sales drop after AI lags rivalsJing Daily · 18 Aug 2026
- Baidu’s AI Models Continue to Expand with Ernie Assistant Surpassing 200 million Monthly Active UsersYahoo Finance · 30 Jan 2026