ERNIE Lite Pro
ERNIE Lite Pro is worth evaluating for long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- ERNIE
- Released
- 2025-01-01
- Context
- 128k
- Max output
- 4,096
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Baidu Qianfan
About
ERNIE Lite Pro is Baidu's ultra-lightweight efficient model, available via the Qianfan API at the lowest price tier ($0.03/1M input tokens). Offers 128K context with minimal cost for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications. Pro-tier successor to the legacy free ERNIE Lite model. API model ID: ernie-lite-pro-128k. Exact release date not publicly documented.
ERNIE Lite Pro is a proprietary model in the ERNIE family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Baidu Qianfan, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.03 input and $0.059 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for ERNIE Lite Pro yet.
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baidu Qianfan | $0.030 | $0.059 | Serverless |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Long context
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(1)
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of ERNIE Lite Pro?
ERNIE Lite Pro has a context window of 128k tokens.
What is the max output of ERNIE Lite Pro?
ERNIE Lite Pro can generate up to 4,096 output tokens.
How much does ERNIE Lite Pro cost?
ERNIE Lite Pro is available at $0.03/1M input tokens through Baidu Qianfan.
When was ERNIE Lite Pro released?
ERNIE Lite Pro was released on 2025-01-01.
Which providers offer ERNIE Lite Pro?
ERNIE Lite Pro is available from 1 provider: Baidu Qianfan.
Cheapest of 1 route · Baidu Qianfan