Using ERNIE X1 Turbo on Baidu Qianfan

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Baidu Qianfan and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Baidu Qianfan SDK or REST API to call ernie-x1-turbo-32k — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.15/1M input, $0.59/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

About Baidu Qianfan

Baidu Qianfan provides native hosted access to Baidu's ERNIE model lineup, including ERNIE 5.1, through model service APIs and the Qianfan console. The platform documents OpenAI-compatible access patterns, model lists, rate limits, and token-based pricing for online inference.

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.

Pricing on Baidu Qianfan

Capabilities

About ERNIE X1 Turbo

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.