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ERNIE 5.1: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby BaiduReleased May 9, 2026

ERNIE 5.1 is a text model by Baidu. 2 providers serve it, from $2.54 to $2.65 /1M; the lowest price is at AIHubMix.

Lowest price$2.54/1Mat AIHubMix
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
Providers2
Context128KMax output 66K

How ERNIE 5.1 compares

Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

  • Pricey for its class: at $2.54 /1M, its lowest price is above 68% of comparable models (median $1.10).
  • Its 128K-token context window is larger than 12% of them (median 262K), about 190 pages of text.
  • On LMArena's Text board it ranks #5 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
  • 2 providers serve it; 36% of comparable models have fewer.

ERNIE 5.1 prices by provider

Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
AIHubMix$0.563/1MFrom$2.54/1M$0.563/1M119K
ZenMux$0.588/1MFrom$2.65/1M—128K
Output price by provider, /1M, cheapest first
  1. AIHubMixFrom$2.54
  2. ZenMuxFrom$2.65
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Maker
Baidu
Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Context
128K≈ 190 pages of text
Max output
66K
Capabilities
Prompt caching, Reasoning
Released
May 9, 2026
License
—
Open weights
—
Arena score
1468Text
Monthly searches
1K

Alternatives to ERNIE 5.1

Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.

ModelLowest priceContextArenaProviders
ERNIE 5.1this model$2.54/1M128K14682
GLM-5.3$1.10/1M1.05M162349
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B$4.11/1M1M—22
Grok 4.7$4.80/1M500K163728
Gemini 3 Flash$2.40/1M1.05M14665
Mistral Large 4$2.09/1M1.05M154313
Muse Spark 1.3$4.25/1M1.05M165711
Sonar$1/1M127K—9
GLM-5.2$1.80/1M1M160444

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