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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.