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Why use ERNIE X1.1 on Baidu Qianfan?
Baidu Qianfan offers ERNIE X1.1 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.15/1M 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-x1.1ernie-x1.1Request example
ernie-x1.1.Gotchas
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Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.15 |
| Output tokens | $0.59 |
Capabilities
About ERNIE X1.1
ERNIE X1.1 is Baidu's second-generation deep-thinking reasoning model, unveiled at Wave Summit on September 9, 2025. Built on ERNIE 4.5 multimodal foundations with iterative hybrid reinforcement learning and self-distillation. Delivers significant gains over ERNIE X1: factual accuracy up 34.8%, instruction following up 12.5%, agentic capabilities up 9.6%. Surpasses DeepSeek R1-0528 and performs on par with GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on key benchmarks. Qianfan lists both ernie-x1.1 and ernie-x1.1-preview endpoints with 64K context and up to 65,536 output tokens.