ERNIE X1 Turbo
ERNIE X1 Turbo is worth evaluating for agents, vision, and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating agents, vision, and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 32k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- ERNIE
- Released
- 2025-04-24
- Context
- 32k
- Max output
- 28,160
- Specialization
- reasoning
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Baidu Qianfan
About
ERNIE X1 Turbo is Baidu's faster, more affordable deep-thinking reasoning model, launched April 24, 2025. It builds on ERNIE X1's chain-of-thought capabilities with enhanced multimodal understanding and tool use. Priced at ~25% of DeepSeek R1 ($0.15/1M input tokens). Claims to outperform DeepSeek R1 and DeepSeek V3 on key benchmarks. API model ID: ernie-x1-turbo-32k.
ERNIE X1 Turbo is a proprietary model in the ERNIE family. The structured metadata tracks a 32k-token context window, multimodal input, reasoning, function calling, and tool use. This page tracks provider routes through Baidu Qianfan, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.15 input and $0.59 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for ERNIE X1 Turbo yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
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 | $0.150 | $0.590 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Agents
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of ERNIE X1 Turbo?
ERNIE X1 Turbo has a context window of 32k tokens.
What is the max output of ERNIE X1 Turbo?
ERNIE X1 Turbo can generate up to 28,160 output tokens.
How much does ERNIE X1 Turbo cost?
ERNIE X1 Turbo is available at $0.15/1M input tokens through Baidu Qianfan.
When was ERNIE X1 Turbo released?
ERNIE X1 Turbo was released on 2025-04-24.
Which providers offer ERNIE X1 Turbo?
ERNIE X1 Turbo is available from 1 provider: Baidu Qianfan.
Cheapest of 1 route · Baidu Qianfan