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
- 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.
Cheapest of 1 route · Baidu Qianfan