Baidu ERNIE models: Qianfan access and what it costs abroad

Baidu ERNIE family covers general text and vision work, with the 5.x generation current and 4.5 Turbo VL still listed for multimodal tasks. ERNIE 5.0 is the only entry with published dollar pricing.

Access runs through Baidu own cloud, and several rates are not published outside the Chinese console — the empty cells in this rating mean unconfirmed rather than free. For teams operating in China, ERNIE is a default; elsewhere it is a comparison point rather than a common choice.

• Benchmark against a comparable model from a larger vendor before committing production traffic — line-ups this size get less independent testing.
• Start with ERNIE 5.0 at $1.4 / $5.6 per 1M tokens; it is the cheapest entry point here.
• Check the context window against your longest input — the largest here is ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL at 128K tokens.
• Request current rates directly: 2 of the listed models publish no public per-token price.