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文心一言Baidu ERNIE

China's longest-running LLM lineage

Models

2

Founded

2019

Country

China

Beijing

Founded 2019. ERNIE line; parent Baidu founded 2000.

Baidu ERNIE builds its models out of Beijing, China. Webparam tracks two of its models, spanning language and reasoning: free to call and reaching 128K.

Models

The Baidu ERNIE catalogue

Ordered by weekly usage on Webparam.

  • ERNIE 4.5 by Baidu ERNIE
    Baidu ERNIEOn request

    ERNIE 4.5

    baidu/ernie-4.5

    Baidu's open multimodal flagship, deep Chinese knowledge grounding with vision input included.

    LanguageTool callingJSON modeStreaming

    128K ctx · Free

  • ERNIE X1 by Baidu ERNIE
    Baidu ERNIEOn request

    ERNIE X1

    baidu/ernie-x1

    Deliberate reasoning at accessible prices, Baidu's answer to the open reasoning wave.

    ReasoningTool callingStreaming

    128K ctx · Free

Recent releases

What shipped lately

    ERNIE predates the modern LLM wave. Baidu has iterated the line since 2019, giving it the longest continuous model lineage in China. The 4.5 generation went open-weight, and the X1 reasoning line brought competitive deliberate-thinking capability at accessible prices.

    Strengths

    • Longest-running Chinese LLM programme
    • Open-weight flagship generation
    • Strong Chinese-language knowledge grounding

    Use Baidu ERNIE models through Webparam

    Every model above is callable through one OpenAI-compatible convention: change the model ID, keep the request.

    Chat completions reference →ERNIE 4.5 model details →

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