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Why use ERNIE Lite Pro on Baidu Qianfan?
Baidu Qianfan offers ERNIE Lite Pro with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.03/1M 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.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: ernie-lite-pro-128kernie-lite-pro-128kRequest example
ernie-lite-pro-128k.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "ernie-lite-pro-128k", not the LLMReference slug "ernie-lite-pro".
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.03 |
| Output tokens | $0.06 |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
About ERNIE Lite Pro
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.
FAQ
What does ERNIE Lite Pro cost on Baidu Qianfan?
On Baidu Qianfan, ERNIE Lite Pro costs $0.03 per 1M input tokens and $0.059 per 1M output tokens.
What is the context window for ERNIE Lite Pro on Baidu Qianfan?
ERNIE Lite Pro supports a 128k token context window on Baidu Qianfan.
What API model ID do I use for ERNIE Lite Pro on Baidu Qianfan?
Use the model ID ernie-lite-pro-128k when calling Baidu Qianfan's API.
Who created ERNIE Lite Pro?
ERNIE Lite Pro was created by Baidu AI as part of the ERNIE model family.
Is ERNIE Lite Pro open source?
ERNIE Lite Pro is not open source; the seed data lists it as proprietary.