Baidu
Baidu ranks #38 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 2 ranked models. Its best model is ERNIE 5.0 at 47.4 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in agents & tools. 1 of its 6 models ship open weights.
ERNIE models (4.5 open-weights, 5 series) behind the ERNIE Bot assistant and Baidu Cloud.
- Provider rank
- #38
- by best model
- Best index
- 47.4
- ERNIE 5.0 (thinking)
- Ranked models
- 2
- 1 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
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Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
- Baidu2
Next release
Not enough dated releases to estimate a cadence.
Models
Every Baidu model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
6 of 6
| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ERNIE 5.0thinking | 47.4±4 | – | – | – | 128k | 2025-11-13 | 2025-11-13 · stale |
| 2 | ERNIE 4.5open | 44.1±2 | – | – | – | 131k | 2025-06-30 | 2025-06-30 · stale |
| 3 | ERNIE 5.0 0110 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 4 | ERNIE 5.0 1022 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 5 | ERNIE 5.1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-22 |
| 6 | ERNIE 5.0 1220 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-19 |
Latest news
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- Baidu's Unlimited OCR: The AI That Can Read an Entire Book in One GoAlpha Match Technology · 25 Jun 2026
- Baidu's Ernie 5.1 cuts 94 percent of pre-training costs while competing with top models - the-decoder.comthe-decoder.com · 11 May 2026