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Why use ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview with free input token pricing. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: baidu/ernie-5.5-flash-preview:freebaidu/ernie-5.5-flash-preview:freeRequest example
baidu/ernie-5.5-flash-preview:free.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "baidu/ernie-5.5-flash-preview:free", not the LLMReference slug "ernie-5.5-flash-preview".
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | Free |
| Output tokens | Free |
Capabilities
About ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview is Baidu's first post-trained model built on ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, released November 11, 2026. It has 280B total parameters with 14B active and a 1M-token context, and Baidu positions it for coding, 3D modeling, knowledge work and content creation with generation above 200 tokens per second. The API is available on Baidu Qianfan and as a free OpenRouter model; Baidu says the weights will be open-sourced under Apache 2.0 by November 25.