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Baidu's free ERNIE-powered chatbot
Pros
- Free to use
- Strong Chinese-language performance
- Integrated with Baidu ecosystem
Cons
- China-focused
- Limited outside mainland China
✓ Where it shines / best for
- Chinese-language users and businesses needing a native LLM assistant
- Research and deep-search queries within the Chinese web ecosystem
- Free access to a frontier multimodal reasoning model (ERNIE X1)
✕ Not the best fit for
- English-first or Western-market workflows (Chinese-centric, geo-restricted)
- Teams needing strong data-privacy guarantees outside China
- Users requiring a stable public English API for production apps
Features
- ✓ Free tier
- ✓ API access
- ✓ Web search
- ✓ Document Analysis
- ✓ Multimodal
- ✓ Open source
- ✓ Text-to-image
- ✓ Open Weight Models
- ✓ Chinese Language
- ✓ Code Generation
- ✓ Deep Search
- ✓ Reasoning Model
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | forever | Baidu made Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan) fully free to all individual users on April 1, 2025, ahead of schedule. Includes ERNIE 4.5 (native multimodal) and the ERNIE X1 deep-reasoning model, advanced/deep search, AI image generation, document Q&A, image understanding, and code interpreting. Primarily Chinese-language; account/login required. No paid consumer tier; API is billed separately and very cheap (from ~RMB 0.004/1K input tokens). |
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