Ernie 4

by Baidu

Ernie family

Parameters

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Context window

128K tokens

Released

2023-10-17

Input price / 1M tok

$1.70

Output price / 1M tok

$5.70

Modality

multimodal, vision, tools

About Ernie 4

Baidu's flagship, powering Wenxin/Ernie Bot. Dominant among Chinese cloud LLMs before DeepSeek. Strong bilingual EN/ZH, vision, and Baidu-search grounding. Less competitive per-dollar vs DeepSeek/Doubao after 2025.

Strengths

Baidu-search grounding
Strong Chinese quality
Vision
Enterprise BR-CN partnerships

Weaknesses

Pricier than Chinese peers
No open weights
English documentation limited

Best for

Chinese chatbotsBilingual searchEnterprise CN deployments

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