Why use ERNIE 5.0 on Baidu Qianfan?
Baidu Qianfan offers ERNIE 5.0 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.89/1M input tokens. Baidu Qianfan is Baidu Intelligent Cloud's foundation model and Agent development platform, providing hosted API access to ERNIE and Qianfan models for text generation, reasoning, multimodal understanding, embeddings, and agent workflows.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.89 |
| Output tokens | $3.54 |
Capabilities
About ERNIE 5.0
ERNIE 5.0 is Baidu's fifth-generation flagship foundation model, officially launched January 22, 2026 (preview at Baidu World November 13, 2025). It is a fully native multimodal model supporting text, image, audio, and video understanding and generation under a unified autoregressive framework, trained simultaneously across modalities from scratch. With 2.4 trillion total parameters and ultra-sparse MoE activation engaging <3% of parameters per inference, it delivers frontier performance at high efficiency. Available on Baidu AI Cloud's Qianfan MaaS platform. API model IDs: ernie-5.0; ernie-5.0-thinking-preview (thinking mode).
FAQ
What does ERNIE 5.0 cost on Baidu Qianfan?
On Baidu Qianfan, ERNIE 5.0 costs $0.89 per 1M input tokens and $3.54 per 1M output tokens.
What is the context window for ERNIE 5.0 on Baidu Qianfan?
ERNIE 5.0 supports a 128,000 token context window on Baidu Qianfan.
What API model ID do I use for ERNIE 5.0 on Baidu Qianfan?
Use the model ID ernie-5.0 when calling Baidu Qianfan's API.
Who created ERNIE 5.0?
ERNIE 5.0 was created by Baidu AI as part of the ERNIE 5 model family.
Is ERNIE 5.0 open source?
ERNIE 5.0 is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.