Cogram vs Ernie Bot

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

	Cogram Agents	Ernie Bot Agents
Tagline	AI assistant for architecture, engineering, and construction teams that automates meeting minutes, RFIs, field reports, and project correspondence.	Baidu's Mandarin-first ChatGPT rival, powered by the ERNIE model family
Category	Agents	Agents
Pricing	Enterprise· Contact sales; guided free trial available	Freemium· Free tier for Ernie 3.5 access; Ernie 4.0 and premium features require a paid subscription (approximately CNY 59.9/month for individual plans); enterprise API pricing via Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan platform is metered per 1K tokens.
Model	—	Baidu ERNIE 4.0 / ERNIE X1 / ERNIE Turbo (in-house)
Editorial score	6.9 / 10	8.7 / 10
Use cases	meeting-minutesfield-reportsrfi-managementemail-triageconstruction-docs	Mandarin content writing and marketing copyChinese-language document Q&A and summarisationBaidu-search-grounded research briefsCustom agents built on the Qianfan platformRetrieval-augmented chat over internal Chinese corporaCode generation and explanation in ChineseImage generation from Chinese promptsCustomer-service chatbots for mainland usersFine-tuning ERNIE models on domain data
Pros	Deep AEC focus with Procore, Deltek, Unanet and Autodesk integrations Covers meetings, email, RFIs, submittals and field reports in one product SOC 2 Type II with optional private-cloud or on-prem deployment Explicit no-training-on-customer-data policy	Best-in-class Mandarin fluency and Chinese cultural/idiomatic understanding among major LLMs Deep integration with Baidu Search, Wenku, Netdisk and Maps for grounded Chinese-language answers Full agent/plugin platform (Qianfan) with function calling, RAG, and fine-tuning for enterprise developers Multiple model tiers (Ernie 4.0, X1 reasoning, Turbo) covering quality-vs-cost trade-offs Native image generation and document/PDF understanding built into the chat UI Compliant, in-country hosting that satisfies Chinese data-residency and regulatory requirements Very large free tier makes it accessible for individual and small-team experimentation
Cons	No public pricing; enterprise sales motion only Useless outside the AEC vertical Underlying model stack not disclosed Not open source	Subject to Chinese government censorship; refuses politically sensitive topics and self-censors on sovereignty issues Web app and most documentation are Chinese-only, with a steep onboarding curve for non-Mandarin teams Requires a mainland Chinese phone number for sign-up, which blocks most international users English-language performance and reasoning lag Western frontier models (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini) Data submitted may be processed under PRC data laws, which is a non-starter for many Western enterprises Ecosystem lock-in to Baidu AI Cloud for serious production use
Website	cogram.com	yiyan.baidu.com

Pick Cogram if

✅ Deep AEC focus with Procore, Deltek, Unanet and Autodesk integrations
✅ Covers meetings, email, RFIs, submittals and field reports in one product
✅ SOC 2 Type II with optional private-cloud or on-prem deployment
✅ Explicit no-training-on-customer-data policy

Pick Ernie Bot if

✅ Best-in-class Mandarin fluency and Chinese cultural/idiomatic understanding among major LLMs
✅ Deep integration with Baidu Search, Wenku, Netdisk and Maps for grounded Chinese-language answers
✅ Full agent/plugin platform (Qianfan) with function calling, RAG, and fine-tuning for enterprise developers
✅ Multiple model tiers (Ernie 4.0, X1 reasoning, Turbo) covering quality-vs-cost trade-offs

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